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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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| 1941 December |
| | | Enigma is now being decoded fast enough at Bletchley to give the Allies advance warning of German plans | |
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| 1941 December 5 |
| | | The German advance is held just short of Moscow as winter arrives | |
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| 1941 December 7 |
| | | In three adapted vans at Chelmno, in western Poland, the Germans begin using poison gas to kill Jews | |
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| 1941 December 7 |
| | | Without warning, 400 Japanese planes attack and destroy US warships at anchor in Pearl Harbor | |
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| 1941 December 8 |
| | | Within hours of Pearl Harbor, Japanese aircraft attack the Philippines and destroy half the available US planes | |
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