WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO SEPTEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened May to September 1942

Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. (22. July 1942)

World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers. (6. June 1942)

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed. (22. May 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Midway ended. (7. June 1942)

World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time. (18. July 1942)

The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. (26. June 1942)

Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. (6. July 1942)

The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished. (1. July 1942)

World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships. (8. May 1942)

The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. (22. July 1942)

World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris. (23. June 1942)

Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies. (22. May 1942)

World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. (30. May 1942)

World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Japanese soldiers began occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. (7. June 1942)

The Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. (12. May 1942)

Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established. (10. July 1942)

World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range. (21. August 1942)

World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. (15. May 1942)

World War II: The U.S. tanker Virginia was torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German U-Boat U-507. (12. May 1942)

World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari). (17. August 1942)