WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1941
Find out what all happened June to August 1941

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

World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. (5. June 1941)

Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. (22. June 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: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants. (3. June 1941)

The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad. (1. June 1941)

Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. (10. July 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)

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

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

Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union. (29. August 1941)

The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question." (31. July 1941)

World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari. (2. June 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)

Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record. (16. July 1941)

World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. (14. August 1941)

Japanese troops occupy French Indochina. (27. July 1941)

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

World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. (7. July 1941)

World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon. (8. June 1941)