WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened May to December 1941

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. (13. November 1941)

Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. (4. July 1941)

Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. (25. December 1941)

World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. (2. October 1941)

The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs. (3. September 1941)

Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. (12. May 1941)

World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. (3. September 1941)

World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. (30. October 1941)

World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan. (9. December 1941)

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief. (20. July 1941)

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

World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants. (3. June 1941)

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

World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners. (5. August 1941)

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

Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery (12. December 1941)

World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. (1. June 1941)

World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States. (1. December 1941)

World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. (4. September 1941)

World War II: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". (27. May 1941)