Due to the migration of many African-Americans from the rural South to the defense centers of the North and the

FDR and Churchill meet at Casablanca and decide upon a policy of Unconditional Surrender

War rationing books are issued in America with coupons for gasoline, which joins sugar and coffee. Later, during 1943, meat,

Fighting between German and Soviet forces in Stalingrad in the Soviet Union.

Battle of Guadalcanal, heavy losses on both sides, eventual United States victory.

Americans arriving at Guadalcanal. Aftermath of the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Japan captures Bataan. By June, Japan also controls the Philippines.

By order of FDR, Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast are transferred to internment camps in the interior of the

In the United States, the Emergency Price Control Act fixes price ceilings and controls rents in areas of defense production.

14 Nazi leaders attend a short meeting to discuss the elimination of the remaining European Jews. The genocidal plan is

Rationing in the United States begins with auto tires.

United States institutes extended military conscription for men ages 20-44.