What Happened in 1941

1941 — year

Battle of Moscow — 1941 World War II campaign in Russia

Battle of Kiev — 1941 battle resulting in a large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II

Battle of Smolensk — 1941 battle during the second phase of Operation Barbarossa

Anglo-Iraqi War — British-led Allied military campaign against Iraq under Rashid Ali during World War II

Battle of Rostov — 1941 battle

1941 South American Championship — football tournament

Battle of Guam — 1941 World War II battle

1941 in film — overview of the events of 1941 in film

1941 Odessa massacre — massacre of Jews in Odessa during the Holocaust

NKVD prisoner massacres — mass murders of political prisoners by Soviet secret police in June 1941 during World War II

Attack on Pearl Harbor — 1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S

Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse — naval engagement in World War II, part of the war in the Pacific

Japanese invasion of Thailand — 1941 Empire of Japan invaded Thailand

Infamy Speech — December 8, 1941 speech by FDR on the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Battle of Borneo — 1941 battle

Babi Yar — ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and site of Nazi massacres

Battle of Greece — WWII German invasion of Greece and Allied resistance, April 1941

Invasion of Yugoslavia — 1941 German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers during the Second World War

Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact — 1941 bilateral treaty

Bombing of Belgrade in 1941 — German bombing of Belgrade, Yugoslavia during World War 2

1941 Iraqi coup d'état — coup d'état

Greek Resistance — World War II resistance movement

Battle of Białystok–Minsk — 1941 battle

Jedwabne pogrom — massacre of Jews by ethnic Poles in Nazi-occupied Poland in July 1941

13th Academy Awards — American Motion Picture Academy film award ceremony

Defense of Brest Fortress — 1941 siege in World War II

Farhud — anti-Jewish massacres (pogroms) that took place in Baghdad (Iraq) in 1941

Operation Battleaxe — British Army operation during the Second World War in June 1941

Allied occupation of Iceland — 1941 World War II Allied occupation

Battle of the Denmark Strait — 1941 naval battle between ships of the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine

Operation Brevity — World War II military offensive

Yugoslav coup d'état — Yugoslav coup d'état, 27 March 1941, replaced the regency led by Prince Paul and installed King Peter II

Soviet evacuation of Tallinn — evacuation of the Baltic Fleet and pro-Soviet citizens from Tallinn