Jan 22, 1941 – Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
Feb 11, 1941 – British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.
Feb 12, 1941 – German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.
Feb 14, 1941 – First units of German ‘Afrika Korps’ arrive in North Africa.
March 7, 1941 – Engeland stuurt strijdkrachten naar Griekenland .
March 11, 1941 – President Roosevelt ondertekend de Lend-Lease Act.
March 27, 1941 – Een staatsgreep in Joegoslavie verlaagd de pro-Duitse regering.
April 3, 1941 – Een Pro-Duits regering komt aan de macht in Irak.
April 6, 1941 – Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
April 14, 1941 – Rommel doet een aanval op Tobruk.
April 17, 1941 – Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
April 27, 1941 – Greece surrenders to the Nazis.
May 1, 1941 – German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
May 10, 1941 – Deputy Führer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland.
May 10/11 – Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
May 15, 1941 – Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt).
May 24, 1941 – De HMS Hood wordt door de KMS Bismark tot zinken gebracht
May 27, 1941 – De KMS Bismarck wordt door de Royal Navy tot zinken gebracht
June 4, 1941 – Pro-Allied? government installed in Iraq.
June 8, 1941 – Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
June 14, 1941 – United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
June 22, 1941 – Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
In June – Nazi SS Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder.
June 28, 1941 – Germans capture Minsk.
July 3, 1941 – Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.
July 10, 1941 – Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine.
July 12, 1941 – Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.
July 14, 1941 – British occupy Syria.
July 26, 1941 – Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
July 31, 1941 – Goring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.
Aug 1, 1941 – United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states.
Aug 14, 1941 – Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
Aug 20, 1941 – Nazi siege of Leningrad begins.
Sept 1, 1941 – Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
Sept 3, 1941 – First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Sept 19, 1941 – Nazis take Kiev.
Sept 29, 1941 – Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
Oct 2, 1941 – Operation Typhoon? begins (German advance on Moscow).
Oct 16, 1941 – Germans take Odessa.
Oct 24, 1941 – Germans take Kharkov.
Oct 30, 1941 – Germans reach Sevastopol.
Nov 13, 1941 – British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.
Nov 20, 1941 – Germans take Rostov.
Nov 27, 1941 – Soviet troops retake Rostov.
Dec 5, 1941 – German attack on Moscow is abandoned.
Dec 6, 1941 – Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow.
Dec 7, 1941 – Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
Dec 8, 1941 – United States and Britain declare war on Japan. (Zie United States DECLARATIONS OF A STATE OF WAR WITH JAPAN)
Dec 11, 1941 – Germany declares war on the United States.
Dec 16, 1941 – Rommel begins a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa.
Dec 19, 1941 – Hitler takes complete command of the German Army.