WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JUNE 1941
Find out what all happened May to June 1941

World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk. (1. May 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 German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men. (27. May 1941)

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

The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby (8. 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: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants. (3. June 1941)

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

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

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

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

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

World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. (9. May 1941)

Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II. (31. May 1941)

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

World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari. (2. June 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: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika. (30. May 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)