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| 1941 August |
| | | British and USSR troops invade Iran to depose the oil-rich Reza Shah, fearing that he may take the side of the Germans | |
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| 1941 August 14 |
| | | Roosevelt and Churchill publish a joint Atlantic Charter, foreseeing a future free from 'Nazi tyranny' | |
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| 1941 August 21 |
| | | The first of the Arctic convoys leaves Scapa Flow, in the north of Scotland, taking Hurricane fighters and raw materials to the Soviet Union | |
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| 1941 September |
| | | De Gaulle forms in London the French National Committee, a government in exile in London for the Free French | |
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| 1941 September 8 |
| | | A week or two after reaching Leningrad a Germany army establishes a siege that will last 900 days | |
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| 1941 September 16 |
| | | With British and Russian support, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi succeeds his deposed father as shah of Iran | |
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| 1941 September 27 |
| | | Patrick Henry, the first of the US Liberty ships, is soon followed by more than 2700 others, built at record speed | |
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| 1941 October 16 |
| | | Japanese emperor Hirohito appoints Tojo Hideki as the country's prime minister | |
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| 1941 October 16 |
| | | Adolf Eichmann, in an official letter about policy in relation to the Jews, uses the phrase 'the final solution' | |
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| 1941 November 13 |
| | | The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk by a U-boat in the Mediterranean | |
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