The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-01-08
MWK@XXA8SaN@8
January

41talian defense in Albania reported
7-Greeks push back crack Italian
11-Nazis and Russ sign new trade pact.
17-Russian. Rumanian clashes disturb
21-Civil rioting breaks out in Rumania:
27-Rumanian revolt leaders executed
as civil rioting is ended.
February
9-Winston Churchill in worldwide
radio broadcast asks U. S. for "tools,
not mem to defeat Axis powers.
Admiral Darlan named vice premier
and foreign minister OF France as
Laval loses out.
11-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
22-Nazi army units reported so miles
inside Bulgaria.
26-Anthony Eden reaches Turkey for
war talks.
March
1-Bulgaria joins Axis. German troops
enter that nation.
: Turkey. closes Dardanelles as Nazis
push through Bulgaria to Greek and
Turkish frontiers.
12-BritiSh rush aid to Greece
20-Crown council of Jugoslavia ap.
proves program of passive. alliance
with Axis; Serbs angered; three.
=. ministers quit in protest. ,,,ao.,,,,
throne as Axis rule is ended in
bloodless coup d'etat.
April
3-Bengas1, eastern Libyan capital.
.. taken from British by Nazi and
6-Germany declares war on Jugo-
- slavia and Greece Invasion starts.
Adds Ababa, Ethiopian capital. en-
tered by British:
16-""Worst bombing of all time hits
Jugosiav army conapses.
19-Greece announces suicide of Pre-
mier Korizis. King George heads
new government.
British troops land in Iraq to guard
22-Nazis crack both ends of Allied de-
tense line in Greece and reach his
tory-famed Thermopylae pass,
27-Nazis advance guard enters Athens:
May =.
1-Iraq protests landing of British
forces to protect oil fields,
2-Iraq forces fight British shell i'm
portant airport.
6-British regain control of Iraq oil
Stain takes U.s.s.R. premiership.
12-Rudolph Hess fees Germany and
lands in England.
2-Largest warship ahoat, Britain's A.
ton German battleship Bismarck.
27-British navy sinks battleship Bis
marck after thrilling sea battle.
June
5-German forces reported in Syria.
s-British and Free French forces in
1o-U. S. fTeighter Robin Moor reported
sunk by Nazi U-boat in mid-Atlantic.
21-British and Free French in Syria
take Damascus.
attacks Russia.
23-30-Brest-Litovsk Wilma, Kaunas,
Dvinsk and Lwow fall to Nazis 1as
Russians hold on north and south
fronts.
July
2-Stalin orders "scorched-earth" poll.
cy for Russia as Germans advance.
8-Britain halls U. S. occupation of Ice.
land.
12-soviet claims sea victory over Nazis.
gsignad Sig n % svTs aid pact
form new cabinet under
Prince Konoye.
France accepts Japan'S de.
m man for military control Of French
assets frozen by U. s. and
Britain.
government breaks relations
with Britain.
August
First Russian air raids on Berlin.
admits NaZi gains in Kiev
and Leningrad sectors.
14-Winston Churchill and President
eight.point declaration Of peace aims.
l6-Soviet agrees TO. conference of Rus.
s!a, Britain and u. s.
British troops invade Iran.
and Mussolini end conference
on eastern 'front.'"
September
president Roosevelt calls on U. o.
Mails ' claim Russia thwarted on
Lamerica freishter seafarer bombed
and sunk IN Red sea.
19-Nazis report fall Of Kiev.
24-Anglo-American peace aims and
postwar food pool plans. approved
fighting causes Nazis to
send three divisions to Serbia.
ST. commission for aid to
Russia opens in Moscow.
October
9-Executions reported curling anti.
Nazt uprisingS throughout Europe.
t0-Russisns admit troops are falling
hack. toward Moscow.