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| 1941 |
| January
6th |
 |
In
a speech to Congress, Franklin D. Roosevelt declareed four freedoms
: freedom of speech and religion, freedom of want and fear --
that are essential to democratic interests. |
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| January
22nd |
|
The
Allies took Tobruk. |
|
| February
2nd |
|
Rommel
"The Desert Fox" arrived in Tripoli. |
|
| March
8th |
|
United
States senate passeed the Lend-Lease Bill. |
|
| March
28th |
|
The
Battle Of Cape Matapan. The British defeated the Italian fleet. |
|
| April
5th |
|
Wavell
sent British troops to Greece. |
|
| April
6th |
|
The
Nazis invaded Greece and Yugoslavia. |
|
| April
13th |
|
Rommel
encircled Tobruk. The Soviet Union signed neutrality pact with
Japan. |
|
| April
23rd |
|
Charles
Lindbergh warned the United States against entering into a war
it cannot win. |
|
| May
21st |
|
The
Nazis took Maleme airfield in Crete. |
|
| May
24th |
|
The
British battleship H.M.S. Hood was sunk when it clashed with
the German battleship Bismarck. |
|
| May
27th |
|
The
German battleship Bismarck is sunk by pursuing Britsh destroyers. |
|
| May. |
|
British
engineer Frank Whittle flew the first aircraft with a jet engine,
when the Gloster E 28/29 flew with the Whittle jet engine. |
|
| June
8th |
|
The
Allies invaded Syria. |
|
| June
22nd |
|
| July
12th |
|
The
British and the Soviet Union signed the Anglo-Soviet Treaty
of Mutual Assistance. |
|
| July
28th |
|
Japanese
troops landed in Indochina. |
|
| August
5th |
|
Britain
and America imposed trade ban on sale of raw materials to Japan.
Russian resistance at Smolensk was eliminated. |
|
| August
12th |
|
Army
Group North advanced on Leningrad. Leningrad was threatened
by the Nazi advance. |
|
| August
12th |
|
President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain met
for their first wartime conference, held on board naval vessels
anchored at Placentia Bay, off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. |
|
| August
14th |
|
A
statement from FDR and Churchill, subsequently known as 'The
Atlantic Charter', was issued. The Charter was a statement of
principles and war aims for the two countries. |
|
| August
19th |
|
German
Army Group South captured 650,000 Soviet soldiers at Kiev. |
|
| September
5th |
|
Germans
occupied the Baltic state of Estonia. |
|
September
8th - 9th |
|
The
Nazis isolated Leningrad. Leningrad was cut off from the rest
of Russia, which put the city of Leningrad into a state of siege. |
|
| September
28th |
|
The
first Arctic convoy left for Russia from Iceland. |
|
| October
17th |
|
Tôjô
became the Prime Minister of Japan, succeeding Konoe. |
|
| October
20th |
|
The
Nazis took Bryansk. |
|
| October
30th |
|
The
Nazis advanced through the Crimea in the south and attacked
Moscow. |
|
| November
18th |
|
The
British 8th Army launched the second Allied Desert campaign
in north Africa. |
|
| December
5th |
|
Hitler
abandoned Moscow offensive for the winter. |
|
| December
7th |
|
US
naval base, Pearl
Harbor was attacked by Japanese warplanes. The
Pacific War began as Japan attacked the Philippines,
Hong Kong and Malaya. |
|
| December
8th |
|
| December
9th |
|
China
declared war on Germany and Japan. |
|
| December
10th |
|
Japan
captured Guam. |
|
| December
11th |
|
Germany
and Italy declared war on the United States of America. Japan
attacked Burma. |
|
| December
23rd |
|
Japan
captured Wake Island. |
|
| December
24th |
|
British
troops retook Benghazi. |
|
| December
25th |
|
Japan
captured Hong Kong. |
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