Timeline of World War II (1941)

This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II from 1941, marked also by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front.

January 1941

The leader of Wallonia's fascist party, Léon Degrelle, gives a speech in the German-occupied city of Liège announcing the support of the Rexist Party for German Nazism

February 1941

March 1941

The state of the Allies and Axis powers in March 1941.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941)

April 1941

The state of the Allies and Axis powers in April 1941.

May 1941

German paratroopers land in Crete
The "Strike of the 100,000" begins in Liège in Belgium on the anniversary of the German invasion of 1940. It soon spreads across the whole province until nearly 70,000 workers are on strike.[2]

June 1941

July 1941

The state of the Allies and Axis powers in July 1941.

August 1941

September 1941

October 1941

November 1941

December 1941

The state of the Allies and Axis powers in December 1941.
USS Arizona burned for two days after being hit by a Japanese bomb. Parts of the ship were salvaged, but the wreck remains at the bottom of Pearl Harbor to this day and is a major memorial.
FDR delivers his Infamy Speech to Congress.

See also

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 "1941 Timeline". WW2DB. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  2. 1 2 Gotovitch, José; Aron, Paul, eds. (2008). Dictionnaire de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale en Belgique. Brussels: André Versaille éd. p. 372. ISBN 978-2-87495-001-8.
  3. How Dayan lost his eye (Hebrew, Artificial Eye website)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Chronology - Chronicles of the Vilna Ghetto". Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  5. Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. p. 8. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Stanislwow" (Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum website)
  7. 1 2 mouse geek (October 3, 2011). "Majdanek concentration camp - part 1 of 5". Retrieved November 22, 2016 via YouTube.
  8. Reinhard Heydrich decree (German)
  9. "World War 2 Timelines 1939-1945 - Eastern Europe 1941 - Worldwar-2.net". Worldwar-2.net. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
  10. "The Fur Aktions! Adam Czerniakow Diary Extracts! www.HolocaustResearchProject.org". Retrieved November 22, 2016.

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