WHAT HAPPENED IN 1941.
Look what happened the 1941.

World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete. (20. 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 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". (27. May 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: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika. (30. May 1941)

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

World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. (1. June 1941)

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

World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari. (2. 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: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. (5. June 1941)

World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon. (8. June 1941)

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

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

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

World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. (26. 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)

German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa. (27. June 1941)