WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened April to December 1941

The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. (6. May 1941)

World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them. (11. December 1941)

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

World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men. (27. May 1941)

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

World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika. (30. May 1941)

The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. (28. September 1941)

World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. (14. April 1941)

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

World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking. (7. November 1941)

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

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

Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk. (6. July 1941)

Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage. (15. August 1941)

A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives. (31. May 1941)

World War II: Rommel attacks Tobruk. (14. April 1941)

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

World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island. (23. December 1941)

World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre. (5. December 1941)

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