Personal Political GeneralChandra Bose arrives in ‘Operation Barbarossa’
Berlin begins; Germany
attacks the USSR.
August 1941: Atlantic
Charter declared.
September: Churchill
claims it does not apply
to the colonies.
December 1941: Japan
attacks the USA at Pearl
Harbour; Germany
declares war on the
USA1942 March 26, 1942: Indira March–April 1942: February 15: fall of
Nehru marries Feroz Cripps Mission in India. Singapore to the
Gandhi. August–September 1942: Japanese. Japanese
August 1942–June Quit India Movement. advance up to Burma.
1945: Nehru in jail Sporadic pockets of March 8: fall of
resistance remain Rangoon; April 29:
evacuation of Mandalay.
September–December:
tide of European war
turned by the USSR at
Stalingrad
1943 February 8: Subhas Bose
leaves Germany by
submarine, arriving in
Japan on April 24.
From 10 February:
Gandhi’s 21-day fast;
panic in the British
imperial establishment.
1943–4: Bengal Famine
1944 April to September: May: Gandhi released June 6: Allied landing in
Nehru writes Discovery from prison. Normandy: ‘Second
of Indiain jail July: abortive Front’ finally opened.
Gandhi–Jinnah talks October: Churchill and
Stalin meet in Moscow
to decide on the future
map of Europe
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