Links to previous posts regarding our Chronological Walk thru World War II : Pre War and 1939 ,1940: The link to 1940 .
1941:
January 22, 1941 – Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians. February 12, 1941 – German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa. See DAK 2 videos!
February 14, 1941 – First units of German ‘Afrika Korps’ arrive in North Africa.
March 7, 1941 – British forces arrive in Greece. Reboot of Marita Merkur
March 11, 1941 – President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. March 27, 1941 – A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government.
April 3, 1941 – Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.
April 6, 1941 – Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
April 14, 1941 – Rommel attacks Tobruk. Full DAK 2 playlist Scn 7.4
East Afrika! – https://wp.me/p3euWn-75VEVs
April 17, 1941 – Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
Blog Post: https://wp.me/p3euWn-75VC9M
April 27, 1941 – Greece surrenders to the Nazis.
May 1, 1941 – German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
May 10/11 – Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
May 15, 1941 – Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt).
May 24, 1941 – Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck.
May 27, 1941 – Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy.
June 4, 1941 – Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq.
June 8, 1941 – Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
Reluctant Enemies : https://wp.me/p3euWn-75VDZD
June 14, 1941 – United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
June 22, 1941 – Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins. L2 The Russian Campaign will be out first title to be used to look at Operation Barbarossa.
The Army Group Center action can be seen in a series of video and blog posts starting here: EFS The Barbarossa System from @GMT Games
Army Group South can be seen here:
June 28, 1941 – Germans capture Minsk. July 3, 1941 – Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.
July 10, 1941 – Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine.
July 12, 1941 – Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.
July 14, 1941 – British occupy Syria.
July 26, 1941 – Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
August 1, 1941 – United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states.
August 14, 1941 – Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
August 20, 1941 – Nazi siege of Leningrad begins.
September 19, 1941 – Nazis take Kiev.
October 2, 1941 – Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow). See the Case Blue 45 episode play thru on Youtube and here.
October 16, 1941 – Germans take Odessa.
October 24, 1941 – Germans take Kharkov.
October 30, 1941 – Germans reach Sevastopol.
November 13, 1941 – British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.
November 20, 1941 – Germans take Rostov.
November 27, 1941 – Soviet troops retake Rostov.
December 5, 1941 – German attack on Moscow is abandoned.
December 6, 1941 – Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow.
December 7, 1941 – Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.
December 8, 1941 – U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand.
December 9, 1941 – China declares war on Japan.
December 10, 1941 – Japanese invade the Philippines and also seize Guam.
December 11, 1941 – Japanese invade Burma. Hitler declares war on the United States.
December 15, 1941 – First Japanese merchant ship sunk by a U.S. submarine.
December 16, 1941 – Japanese invade British Borneo. Rommel begins a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa.
December 18, 1941 – Japanese invade Hong Kong.
December 19, 1941 – Hitler takes complete control of the German Army.
December 22, 1941 – Japanese invade Luzon in the Philippines. December 23, 1941 – General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan; Japanese take Wake Island. December 25, 1941 – British surrender at Hong Kong.
December 26, 1941 – Manila declared an open city.
December 27, 1941 – Japanese bomb Manila.
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