WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1941
Find out what all happened March to October 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)

German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa. (27. June 1941)

World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid. (4. March 1941)

World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men. (27. May 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 Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. (1. 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: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. (17. April 1941)

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

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

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

In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (17. March 1941)

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

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: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon. (8. June 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)

For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. (17. October 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)

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