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	1941 A Brief History of the events that shaped 1941.

January
22nd	Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
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February
11th	British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.
12th	German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.
14th	First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.
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March
7th	British forces arrive in Greece.
11th	US passes the Lend Lease act.
22nd	Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
27th	A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government.
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April
3rd	Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.
6th	Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
14th	Rommel attacks Tobruk.
17th	Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
2th	Greece surrenders to the Nazis.
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May
1st	German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
1st	Orson Welles' screenplay, Citizen Kane, premieres in New York.
1st	Breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by General Mills.
10th	Deputy Führer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland.
10th	Heavy German bombing of London.
10th	British bomb Hamburg.
15th	Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt).
24th	Sinking of the British ship HMS Hood by the Bismarck.
27th	The Royal Navy sink the Bismark.
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June
4th	Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq.
8th	Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
14th	United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
22nd	Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
28th	Germans capture Minsk.
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July
3rd	Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.
10th	Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine.
12th	Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.
14th	British occupy Syria.
26th	Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
31st	Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.
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August
1st	United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states.
14th	Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
20th	Nazi siege of Leningrad begins.
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September
1st	Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
3rd	First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
16th	Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran is forced to resign in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran under pressure from the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
19th	Nazis take Kiev.
29th	Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
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October
2nd	Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow).
16th	Germans take Odessa.
24th	Germans take Kharkov.
30th	Germans reach Sevastopol.
31st	After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
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November
13th	British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.
20th	Germans take Rostov.
27th	Soviet troops retake Rostov.
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December
5th	German attack on Moscow is abandoned.
6th	Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow.
7th	Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbour in the US.
7th	Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
8th	United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
11th	Germany and Italy declare war on the US.
16th	Rommel begins a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa.
19th	Hitler assumes complete command of the German Army.
25th	Britain surrenders Hong Kong to the Japanese.
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