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| 1940 November 20 |
| | | Hungary, Romania and Slovakia sign the Tripartite Pact, joining the war on the German side | |
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| 1940 November 25 |
| | | The de Havilland Mosquito, a multi-purpose wooden aeroplane widely used by the RAF in World War II, makes its first flight | |
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| 1940 December 18 |
| | | Adolf Hitler orders preparations to be made for Operation Barbarossa, his planned invasion of the Soviet Union | |
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| 1941 |
| | | British aviator Amy Johnson is reported missing over the Thames estuary when flying on a mission for the Air Ministry | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Scott FitzGerald's final and incomplete novel, The Last Tycoon, is published posthumously | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Greta Garbo receives terrible reviews for Two Faced Woman, which turns out to be her last film and the beginning of a long retirement | |
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| 1941 |
| | | English composer Michael Tippett completes his oratorio A Child of our Time (not performed until 1944) | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Agee and Evans give a warm personal view of America in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht's play set in the Thirty Years' War, Mother Courage, has its first performance in Zurich | |
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| c. 1941 |
| | | Henri Matisse, recovering from an operation, develops his technique of gouaches découpées (cut-out patches of painted paper) | |
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