WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1941
Find out what all happened January to June 1941

Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece. (21. April 1941)

World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea. (5. February 1941)

World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht. (23. April 1941)

World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen. (24. May 1941)

World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. (10. January 1941)

The June Uprising in Lithuania begins. (22. June 1941)

World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance. (13. May 1941)

World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. (10. May 1941)

A German officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers. (20. January 1941)

The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby (8. May 1941)

World War II: German troops enter Athens. (27. April 1941)

Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. (5. May 1941)

A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives. (31. May 1941)

Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy. (17. January 1941)

Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. (22. June 1941)

Fantana Alba massacre: between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Guards. (1. April 1941)

World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers. (1. March 1941)

Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews. (27. June 1941)

World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. (10. May 1941)

World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships. (16. April 1941)