WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened June to December 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: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen. (19. November 1941)

World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand. (14. December 1941)

Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. (11. October 1941)

World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. (25. December 1941)

Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record. (16. July 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)

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

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

World War II: The Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Romania declare war on the United States. (13. December 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: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. (3. September 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)

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

World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.) (8. December 1941)

World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation. (7. July 1941)

For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. (17. October 1941)

World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. (4. September 1941)

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