Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-01-01
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
January

January
Italian defense in Albania reported
broken.
7-Greeks push back crack Italian
ll-Nazis and Russ sign new trade pact.
l7-Russian. Rumanian clashes disturb
2l-civii rioting breaks out in Rumania;
27-Rumanian revolt leaders executed
as civil rioting Is ended
February
e-winston Churchill in worldwide
radio broadc st asks U. s. for tools,
not men, Il. defeat Axis powers.
Admiral Darlan named vice premier
and foreign minister OF France as
Laval loses out.
l0-Great Britain breaks diplomatic ties
l1-Russia reported to have okayed
Nazi thrust into Bulgaria.
Nazis fly army to Balkans.
16-Britain mines Singapore sea lanes.
18-Japan offers to mediate European
a2-Nazi army units reported so miles
inside Bulgaria.
7s-Anthony Eden reaches Turkey for
war talks.
March
l-Bulgaria joins Axis. German troops
enter that nation. -
9-Turkey closes Dardanelles as Nazis
push through Bulgaria to Greek and
Turkish frontiers.
12-British rush aid to Greece
20-Crown council Of Jugoslavia. APP
proves program of passive alliance
with Axis; Serbs angered; three
s7-Boy 's King Peter takes Jusoslev
throne as Axis rule Is ended In
bloodless coup d'etat.
April
s-Bengasl, eastern Libyan capital,
taken from British BY Naz and
GGermany declares war on Jugo-
slavia and Greece. Invasion starts.
Adds Ababa, Ethiopian capital. en-
16-"Worst bombing" Of all time hits
Jugosiav army conapses.
mier korizis. King George heads
British troops land in Iraq to guard
vital oil supplies.
13-Nazis crack both ends Of Allied de.
tense line In Greece and reach his
tory-famed Thermopylae pass.
N-Nazis advance guard enters Athens.
May
l--Iraq protests landing Of British
a-Iraq forces fight British. shell i'm.
porfant airport.
-hritish regain control Of Iraa oil
Stain takes u.s,s.R. premiership.
l2-Rudolph Hess fees Germany and
lands in England.
a4-Largest warship afioat, Britain.s e.
o0o-ton Hood. Is sunk by new 5000
27-British navy sinks battleship Bis
marck after thrilling sea battle.
June
5-German forces reported in Syria.
British and Free French forces IN
1o-U. S. fTeishter Robin Moor reported
sunk by Nazi U-boat in mid-Atlantic.
3l-British and Free French In Syria
take Damascus.
22-Germany attacks Russia.
Dvinsk and Lwow fall to Nazis as
Russians hold on north and south
fronts.
July
a-Stalin orders "scorched-earth'' poll.
cy for Russia as Germans advance.
s-Britain halls U. s. occupation Of Ice
l2-Soviet claims sea victory over Nazis.
Russia-England sign mutual aid pact.
Armistice signed In Syria:
le-Japanese form new cabinet under
zs-vichy France accepts Japan,s de.
mand for military control Of French
as-Japan's assets frozen by U. s. and
2s-Finnish government breaks relations
with Britain
August
First Russian air raids on Berlin,
10-Russia admits Nazi gains In Kiev
and Leningrad sectors.
14-Winston Churchill and President
Roosevelt meet at sea and issue
:. sightpoint declaration Of peace aims
sia. Britain and U. s.
24-Russo-British troops invade Iran.
2o-Hitler and Mussolini end conference
on eastern front"
September
president Roosevelt calls on U. 8.
to crush Axis power.
4-Nazis claim Russia thwarted on
7-Americs freighter seafarer bombed
and sunk In Red sea.
19--Nazis report fall Of Kiev.
M--Anglo- American peace aims and
postwar food pool plans approved
by IL Allied governments In London.
send three divisions to Serbia.
z0-British-U. 5. commission for aid 70
Russia opens In Moscow.
October
3-Executions reported eurbing anti
Nazi upriHings throughout Europe
lo-Hussinn1 admit troops are falling
back toward Moscow.