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| | | January 22 - Archibald Wavell's Allied divisions, after a rapid desert campaign, drive the Italians from the Libyan port of Tobruk | |
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| 1941 |
| | | February 3 - Adolf Hitler sends Erwin Rommel to save the Italians from looming disaster in north Africa | |
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| | | March 11 - Congress passes the Lend-lease Act, enabling President Roosevelt to provide much needed help to US allies | |
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| | | March 28 - the Italian navy, defeated off Cape Matapan, ceases to be a significant factor in the Mediterranean | |
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| | | April 6 - the Allies recover Ethiopia from the Italians and Haile Selassie returns to his throne in Addis Ababa | |
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| | | April 6 - German troops invade and rapidly overrun Yugoslavia | |
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| | | April 7-28 - German troops move on from Yugoslavia into Greece, driving a small British force from the mainland across the sea to Crete | |
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| | | May - in preparation for the invasion of Russia, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler set up Special Task Commandos (Einsatzkommando) to exterminate Communists and Jews | |
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| | | May 10 - Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy in the Nazi party, flies to Britain on a bizarre secret mission | |
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| | | May 15 - a Gloster E.28/39 air frame becomes the first craft to fly with a Whittle jet engine | |
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| | | May 19 - the Vietminh is founded as a guerrilla force to liberate Vietnam from the Japanese, and Ho Chi Minh soon emerges as the leader | |
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| | | May 27 - Germany's latest battleship, the Bismarck, is sunk in the Atlantic with the loss of nearly all her 2222 crew | |
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| 1941 |
| | | May 27 - with Iceland as an Allied base, convoys can now be escorted by warships for the entire Atlantic crossing | |
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| | | May 30 - German forces evict the British from the island of Crete after a week-long battle | |
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| | | June 22 - German armies cross the border to invade Russia on a front from the Baltic to southern Poland | |
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| | | June 27 - the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appoints Tito to head a guerrilla force to resist the recent German invasion of the country | |
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| 1941 |
| | | July - Churchill appoints Claude Auchinleck as British commander in North Africa and the Middle East | |
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| | | July - the systematic shooting of Russian Jews by German Einsatzgruppen is the first step in the development of the Holocaust | |
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| | | July - Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) is formed for unorthodox guerrilla operations in the north African desert | |
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| | | July 16 - less than four weeks after crossing the Russian border, a German army is within 200 miles of Moscow | |
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| | | July 26 - Roosevelt appoints Douglas MacArthur commander of US forces in the Far East | |
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| | | 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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| | | 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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| | | 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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| | | 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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