WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1941
Find out what all happened January to May 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: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa. (18. January 1941)

World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup. (27. March 1941)

World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. (9. January 1941)

A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. (13. April 1941)

World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. (27. April 1941)

World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers. (28. March 1941)

World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass. (22. January 1941)

World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. (17. April 1941)

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

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. (11. March 1941)

World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact. (2. March 1941)

Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas. (29. January 1941)

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

Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bang Province, Vietnam. (19. May 1941)

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

In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people. (15. April 1941)