WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JUNE 1941
Find out what all happened April to June 1941

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

World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete. (20. May 1941)

World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece). (6. April 1941)

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

Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power. (2. May 1941)

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

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

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

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

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

World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships. (16. April 1941)

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

World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. (10. May 1941)

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

World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht. (23. April 1941)

World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari. (2. June 1941)

World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. (10. April 1941)

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