WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO NOVEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened June to November 1941

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

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief. (20. July 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)

After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed. (31. October 1941)

Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany. (11. September 1941)

World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. (16. September 1941)

World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer. (22. October 1941)

For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. (17. October 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 first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. (3. September 1941)

The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action". (29. October 1941)

World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre. (20. October 1941)

American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography. (1. November 1941)

World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River. (5. July 1941)

1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. (30. October 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: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13. (14. November 1941)

Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war. (24. August 1941)

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. (4. October 1941)

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. (13. November 1941)