1941
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Events
- Lend Lease Act passed.
- Frank Capra releases Meet John Doe
- Herbert Marcuse publishes Reason and Revolution.
- Jamaat-e-Islami is founded in British colonial India.
- Shortly after his 14th birthday future Pope Benedict XVI joins the Hitler Youth.
- Tuvan lama Mongus Lopsan-Cinmit is executed by Soviet authorities.
Timeline
January
- January 12: Future Democratic Delegate from Puerto Rico to the U.S. Congress Jaime Fuster is born in Guayama, Puerto Rico.
- January 20: Iron Guardist Viorel Trifa helps begin the revolt in Buharest that leads to mob action action against the city's Jewish minority.
- Switzerland prepares 18 demolition points on the St. Gothard railway line in the event of a German invasion.
February
- February: Walter Krivitsky, author of I Was Stalin's Agent, is found dead in a Washington, DC hotel room, from a gunshot wound to the head.
June
- June 1: British forces surrender Crete with 18,000 captured.
- June 4: Kaiser William II dies in exile at Doorn, Netherlands.
- German General-Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, de facto German Minister of War, issues the Kommissarbefehl or Commissar Order.
- June 8-July 12: British and Free-French troops invade Vichy French Lebanon and Syria.
- June 14: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt order all German assets frozen.
- June 21: Damascus, Syria is captured by British and Free-French troops.
- June 22: Hitler overreaches. Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
- June 27: German armies reach Minsk.
- June 27: Hungarian Prime Minister Jaszlo Bardossy declares war on the Soviet Union without the approval of parliament.
July
- July: Wu Bangguo is born in Feidong County, Anhui Province, China.
- July 2: Japanese Imperial conference adopts policy of expansion. Japanese military forces will "Strike South" against U.S., British, British, Dutch and French colonial possessions in Southeast Asia.
September
- September 16: Richard Perle is born.
August
- August 1: U.S. embargoes oil to Japan.
- August 2: U.S. establishes Lend-Lease plan for the Soviet Union.
- August 3: The "Lion of Munster," Bishop Clemens Aigust Count von Galen, denounces the Nazi program of involuntary euthanasia as "pure murder."
- August 14: Atlantic Charter is signed by U.S. President Frankin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- August 29: Slobodan Milosevic born in Pozarevac, Serbia.
September
- September: 24 year old John F. Kennedy is sworn in as an ensign in the U.S. Navy.
- September 8: 900 day seige of Leningrad begins with German encirclement of the city.
October
- October 8: RAF conducts incendiary bombing of Hanover.
- October 9: RAF conducts incendiary bombing of Munster.
November
- November 2: Battle between righist Chetniks and communist Partisans in Yugoslavia.
- November 14: Victor Sorge espionage ring member Torao Shinotsuka is arrested by released.
- November 19: Victor Sorge espionage ring member Anna Claisen is arrested.
- November 27: British General John H. Wetherall, commander in chief for East Africa, sends telegram to the Wat Office in London listing the Italian built factories in liberated Eritrea that he wants dismantled and shipped to British colonies as the spoils of war. Nairobu gets a brick factory and Uganda gets an oxygen plant. The British also take a Fiat auto plant, a state of the art cotton mill, an electricity generating plant, a flour mill, saw mills, mining machinery, soap making equipment, a fleet of trucks, and entire steel bridges. Eritrea is effectively deindustralized by its liberators. The theft is later justified as solving the problem of Eritrea being "over-capitalized" or "over-developed." Can't have that!
December
- December 7: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, killing more than 2500 American servicemen and civilians. The United States declares war on Japan the next day.
- December 11: Germany declares War against the United States.
- December 15: Victor Sorge espionage ring member Masazano Yamana is arrested. He is released in October 1945 by U.S. Occupation.
- December 24: Japanese troops land in American colonial Philippines near Luzon.