WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened May to November 1941

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

German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece. (17. October 1941)

June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins. (14. June 1941)

Japanese troops occupy French Indochina. (27. July 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)

At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show. (6. May 1941)

World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. (26. July 1941)

World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow. (23. October 1941)

World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. (12. November 1941)

The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action". (29. October 1941)

Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon. (11. September 1941)

World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed. (22. September 1941)

World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. (26. June 1941)

The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. (27. September 1941)

World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued. (17. September 1941)

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

Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. (11. October 1941)

The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. (23. June 1941)

World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak). (13. July 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)