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This is a timeline of events that stretched over ... Operation Barbarossa began on 22 June 1941, ... Britain issues an ultimatum to Finland to end war with the Soviet ...
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.
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.
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
Army Group North overran the Baltic lands and on 8 September 1941, began a siege of Leningrad accompanied by Finnish forces, which ultimately lasted until 1944. Army Group Centre, the strongest of the three, captured Smolensk in late July 1941 before beginning its drive on Moscow on 2 October. Facing logistical problems with supply, slowed by ...
Timeline of the invasion of Poland (1939) Timeline of the Battle of France (1939–1940) Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945) Timeline of the Winter War (1939–1940) Timeline of the Norwegian campaign (1940) Timeline of the North African campaign (1940–1943) Timeline of the Eastern Front of World War II (1941–1945)
The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion (about $35.4 billion in 2024 [1] dollars). Over 90% of the cost was for building factories and producing the fissionable materials, with less than 10% for development and production of the weapons. [2] [3]