Graphic Year of 
1941
| Graphic Year of |
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| 1941 |
| Jan 22: British take Tobruk in North Africa from Nazis |
Feb 11: British Army attacks Italian Somaliland 12: Erwin Rommel assumes command of German Afrika Korps |
Mar 7: British Army comes to the aid of Greece 11: Lend-Lease Act signed by Roosevelt |
| Apr 6: German Army invades Yugoslavia and Greece, forcing Hitler to postpone planned invasion of Soviet Union 17: Yugoslavia capitulates to Nazis 27: Greece capitulates to Nazis |
May 10: Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland on "peace mission" 15: British counter-attack in Egypt 24: German battleship Bismarck sinks Hood, pride of the Royal Navy 27 : Royal Navy sinks Bismarck |
June 8: British Army invades Lebanon and Syria 22 : Hitler launches operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union 28: Germans capture Soviet city of Minsk |
| July 3: Stalin launches "scorched earth" policy 31: Plans made to implement "Final Solution," the systematic destruction of the Jews |
Aug 3th: Italian Army invades British Somaliland 13th: Luftwaffe begins raids on British airfields and aircraft factories 23-24th: Off-course German bombers accidentally bomb London 25-26th: Royal Air Force mounts reprisal raid against Berlin |
Sept 1: Jews order to wear yellow Star of David 19: Germans capture Soviet city of Kiev 29: German SS mass murders Russian Jews at Kiev |
| Oct 16: Germans capture Soviet city of Odessa 24: Germans capture Soviet city of Kharkov 30: German Army occupies the Crimea |
Nov 20: Germans capture the Soviet city of Rostov 27:Red Army retakes Rostov |
Dec 6: Red Army launches major counter-offensive 7: Japanese attack naval base at Pearl Harbor 8: Roosevelt gives "Day of Infamy" speech; United States and Britain declare war on Japan 11: Germany declares war on the United States 16: Rommel's Afrika Korps forced to retreat in North Africa 19: Hitler assumes post of Commander in Chief of German Army |
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