WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened July to December 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)

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

Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon. (11. September 1941)

World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States. (1. December 1941)

World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. (29. September 1941)

World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour. (19. December 1941)

World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. (8. September 1941)

World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. (14. August 1941)

World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. (2. October 1941)

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

Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record. (16. July 1941)

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

World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo. (17. December 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: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland. (10. December 1941)

World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. (8. October 1941)

World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China. (20. December 1941)

World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day. (14. November 1941)

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

World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. (7. July 1941)