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8 September: Siege of Leningrad begins – a reasonable date to start measuring "the 900 days". German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad; Stalin orders the Volga Germans deported to Siberia. 10 September: German armies now have Kiev completely surrounded.
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million ...
23 June 1941 The Einsatzgruppen begin extermination operations. [37] 28 June 1941 Minsk is captured after the Wehrmacht offensive in Belarus. [37] 1 July 1941 Riga and Lviv are captured by the Wehrmacht. [37] 11 July 1941 The Kovno Ghetto is established. [37] 20 July 1941 The Minsk Ghetto is established. [37] 21 July – 31 August 1941
The UK feared that, if the United States were diverted from its main focus in Europe to the Pacific (Japan), Hitler might crush both the Soviet Union and Britain, and would then become an unconquerable fortress in Europe. The wound inflicted on the United States by Japan at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, did not result in a change in US policy.
Events from the year 1941 in the United States. At the end of this year, the United States enters World War II by declaring war on the Empire of Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor . Incumbents
1941 – Atlantic Charter, drafted by the UK and U.S., to serve as the blueprint for the postwar world after World War II 1942 – Japanese American internment , German American Internment , and Italian American Internment begin, per executive order by President Roosevelt; the order also authorizes the seizure of their property.
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, for eight months, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, during the Second World War. [4]The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London, towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority, between the Luftwaffe and the ...
The United States assumes the defense of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), April 9, 1941 – 1946; The United States assumes the defense of Iceland, July 27, 1941 – 1946; The United States and Brazil assume the defense of Surinam, November 24, 1941 – 1946; World War II, September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945