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| 1941 July |
| | | Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) is formed for unorthodox guerrilla operations in the north African desert | |
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| 1941 July 16 |
| | | Less than four weeks after crossing the Russian border, a German army is within 200 miles of Moscow | |
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| 1941 July 26 |
| | | Roosevelt appoints Douglas MacArthur commander of US forces in the Far East | |
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| 1941 July 31 |
| | | Goering orders Reinhard Heydrich to prepare plans for the 'final solution of the Jewish queston' | |
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| 1941 August |
| | | Nazi experiments are carried out on Jews and Soviet prisoners of war to find effective means of murder by gas | |
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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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