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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 ...
American Design exhibit 1941, Chicago, poster by WPA Art Project September 4 – World War II : The USS Greer becomes the first United States Navy ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power.
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in March 1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941). 1 March Hitler gives orders for the expansion of Auschwitz prison camp, to be run by Commandant Rudolf Höss. Bulgaria officially signs the Tripartite Pact. 4 March
January 3, 1941: Australian troops fight the Battle of Bardia in Egypt against the Axis Powers in first major Australian involvement in World War II. January 23, 1941: Surviving members of Romania's Fascist organization, the Iron Guard, are arrested following massacre of 125 Jewish civilians in Bucharest .
According to an article in The Inquiries Journal by Christopher J. Kshyk, the debate on whether Stalin intended to launch offensive against Germany in 1941 remains inconclusive but has produced an abundance of scholarly literature and helped to expand the understanding of larger themes in Soviet and world history during the interwar period ...
The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II. The United States tried and failed to broker a peace settlement for World War I , then entered the war after Germany launched a submarine campaign against U.S. merchant ships that were supplying Germany's ...
Quartermaster Supply Unit during Louisiana Maneuvers. The Louisiana Maneuvers were a series of major U.S. Army exercises held from August to September 1941 in northern and west-central Louisiana, an area bounded by the Sabine River to the west, the Calcasieu River to the east, and by the city of Shreveport to the north.
In 1941, as the U.S. entered World War II, the government reintroduced war bonds, first under the name Series E Defense Bonds and later, after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, simply War Savings ...