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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.
22 June 1941: Operation Barbarossa commences and the Wehrmacht enters Soviet territory 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 ...
World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939 [1] [2] with the German invasion of Poland and the United Kingdom and France's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939. Dates for the beginning of the Pacific War include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] or the earlier Japanese ...
In early 1941, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, despite receiving intelligence about an imminent attack, did not order a mobilization of the Red Army, fearing that it might provoke Germany. As a result, Soviet forces were largely caught unprepared when the invasion began, with many units positioned poorly and understrength.
The United States entered the war in December 1941 and began direct military assistance in North Africa on 11 May 1942. ... At the end of June, ...
However, in 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, putting an end to the peacetime. The majority of major battles in the Eastern Theatre from 1941 until the end of the war in 1945 were fought between the two powers. The following timeline indicates major events taking place on the Eastern Front.
1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.
April 1, 1941 Aircraft sink two ships from convoy HX 114. [11] April 3, 1941 U-boats sink six ships from convoy SC 26. [10] April 6, 1941 Aircraft sink Dunstan from convoy OB 306. [6] April 9, 1941 The United States occupies Greenland. April 16, 1941 Aircraft sink Swedru from convoy SL 69. [7] April 28, 1941 U-boats sink four ships from convoy ...