1945 - Ecuador declares war on Germany
"; msg[2] = "1943 - In the Soviet Union, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the official surrender of the German 6th Army; 1945 - Naval docks at Singapore are destroyed by B-29 attacks
"; msg[3] = "1941 - General Erwin Rommel is appointed as head of German Army troops in Africa, later to be designated officially as the “Afrika Korps”; 1945 - Heavy bombing of Berlin
"; msg[4] = "1945 - Belgium is now cleared of all German forces; Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference to discuss postwar spheres of influence
"; msg[5] = "1943 - Essen is bombed, marking the beginning of a four-month attack on the Ruhr industrial area
"; msg[6] = "1944 - Germans continue to have continuing success in staving off the Allies at Cassino
"; msg[7] = "1942 - Americans continue their defense of Bataan; 1944 - In Anzio, the Allies continue to be threatened by German artillery attacks
"; msg[8] = "1943 - Nuremberg is heavily bombed; 1944 - The plan for the invasion of France, Operation Overlord, is confirmed; 1945 - Paraguay declares war on Germany
"; msg[9] = "1941 - Churchill again pleads with the US: “give us the tools”; 1943 - Guadalcanal is finally secured; it is the first major achievement of the American offensive in the Pacific war
"; msg[10] = "1941 - Malta is under heavy daily attack, from this date through March
"; msg[11] = "1941 - Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Tunisia; his work with the Afrika Korps will last about two years; 1942 - In the “Channel Dash” The Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen sail from Brest through the English Channel to northern ports, including Wilhelmshaven, Germany; British naval units fail to sink any of them
"; msg[12] = "1941 - Rommel arrives in Tripoli; 1945 - Peru declares war on Germany
"; msg[13] = "1943 - Rommel launches a counter-attack against the Americans in western Tunisia; 1945 - the Battle of Budapest ends with a Soviet victory; Dresden is firebombed by Allied air forces and large parts of the historic city are destroyed. Allies claim it is important strategically
"; msg[14] = "1944 - Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) established in Britain by U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower; 1945 - Prague is bombed. Pilots later called a mistake in navigation as part of the bombing of Dresden
"; msg[15] = "1940 - Hitler orders unrestricted submarine warfare; 1941 - Deportation of Austrian Jews to ghettos in Poland begins; 1942 - Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces and is a devastating loss to Britain; 1944 - The 2nd Battle of Monte Cassino begins. The history-rich monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing
"; msg[16] = "1944 - Germans launch a major counter-attack at Anzio, threatening the American beachhead; 1945 - American naval vessels bombard Tokyo and Yokohama
"; msg[17] = "1944 - Monte Cassino is captured in a final push in which Polish troops distinguish themselves
"; msg[19] = "1941 - The start of the “three nights Blitz” of Swansea, South Wales. Over these three nights of intensive bombing, Swansea town centre is almost completely obliterated; 1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones, affecting the Japanese on the West Coast, and Germans and Italians primarily on the East Coast; 1945 - US Marines invade Iwo Jima
"; msg[20] = "1941 - German and British troops confront each other for the first time in Africa -- at El Agheila in western Libya
"; msg[21] = "1943 - Americans take the Russel Islands, part of the Solomons chain
"; msg[22] = "1942 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense of the nation collapses
"; msg[23] = "1942 - A Japanese submarine (I-17) makes the first attack on the American mainland by shelling an oil refinery at Ellwood, California; 1945 - U.S. Marines raise the American flag on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima
"; msg[24] = "1941 - German U-boat offensive in the Atlantic is now increasingly successful; 1945 - massive bombing of Germany by approximately 9,000 bombers; 1945 - Egypt declares war on the Axis
"; msg[25] = "1942 - The internment of Japanese-American citizens in the Western United States begins as fears of invasion increase; 1945 - Turkey declares war on Germany; 1945 - after ten days of fighting, American and Filipino troops recapture Corregidor
"; msg[26] = "1943 - Rommel retreats northward from the Mareth line in Tunisia; 1945 - Syria declares war on Germany and Japan
"; msg[27] = "1942 - In the Battle of the Java Sea, the combined forces under a Dutch Admiral lose one aircraft tender (the Langley), six destroyers, and five cruisers off Java
"; msg[28] = "1945 - The Sixth United States Army captures Manila, capital of the Philippines by continued the Allied Philippine Commonwealth troops and local guerilla fighters after an unyielding Japanese defence force
"; function writeTip() { document.write(msg[today]); }