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The year 1941 marked many events in history: all under the shadow of the World war 2. Thee euphoria about paradise lost, and peace was long gone, and all the inhabitants with their good times were awaken by those war-time cruelties & shocked into these realities and events as follows:

[edit] Events of 1941

January 23 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

February 4 – World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.

February 5 – Air Training Corps: The Air Training Corps was formed.

February 19–February 22 – World War II: Three Nights' Blitz over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of intensive bombing, which last a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea's town centre is almost completely obliterated by the 896 high explosive bombs employed by the Luftwaffe. A total of 397 casualties and 230 deaths are reported.

March – Captain America Comics #1 issues the first Captain America & Bucky comic.

March 11 – World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.

March 16 – A fleet of U.S. warships arrive in Auckland, New Zealand on a goodwill visit. On March 20, they visit Sydney, Australia.

March 27 – World War II – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.

April 10 – World War II: The U.S. destroyer Niblack, while picking up survivors from a sunken Dutch freighter, drops depth charges on a German U-Boat (the first "shot in anger" fired by America against Germany).

April 25 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, criticizes Charles Lindbergh by comparing him to the Copperheads of the Civil War period. In response, Lindbergh resigns his commission in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve on April 28.

May 9 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.

May 15 – The first British jet aircraft, the Gloster E.28/39, is flown.

May 27 – World War II: The Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing 2,300.

· June 14 – All German and Italian assets in the United States are frozen.

· June 22 – World War II: Germany invades the Soviet Union under Operation Barbarossa. · June 22 – World War II: Winston Churchill promises all possible British assistance to the Soviet Union in a worldwide broadcast: "Any man or state who fights against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe."

· July – The British army's Special Air Service is formed.

July 2 – World War II: Japan calls up 1 million men for military service.

July 26 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U.S. forces in the Philippines; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.

July 31 – World War II – Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S.S. General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."

August 1 – The first Jeep is produced.

August 31 – The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio.

· September 6 – Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.

September 11 – World War II: Charles Lindbergh, at an America First Committee rally in Des Moines, Iowa, accuses "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt administration" of leading the United States toward war. Widespread condemnation of Lindbergh follows.

September 29 and September 30 – Holocaust: Babi Yar massacre – German troops, assisted by Ukrainian police and local collaborators, killed 33,771 Jews of Kiev, Ukraine.

October- mid-month – First production P38E Lightning fighter produced by Lockheed.

October 18 – General Hideki Tojo becomes the 40th Prime Minister of Japan.

October 31 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

November · November 6 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule (the first time was earlier that year on July 2). He states that even though 350,000 troops have been killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a gross exaggeration) and that Soviet victory is near. · November 7 – World War II: The Soviet hospital Ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees, wounded military and the staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people die in the sinking. · November 10 – In a speech at the Mansion House in London, Winston Churchill promises, "should the United States become involved in war with Japan, the British declaration will follow within the hour." · November 12 – World War II: As Battle of Moscow begins, temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C, and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. · November 13 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is hit by German U-boat U-81. · November 14 – World War II: The HMS Ark Royal capsizes and sinks, having been torpedoed by U-81. · November 17 – World War II – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables to Washington a warning that Japan may strike suddenly and unexpectedly at any time. · November 18 – World War II: Operation Crusader in North Africa begins · November 19 – World War II: The Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sinks off the coast of Western Australia, killing 645 sailors. · November 21 – The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it later becomes the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program). · November 26 – World War II – Attack on Pearl Harbor: A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence. · November 27 – A group of young men stop traffic on U.S. Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson. · November 27 – World War II: Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets. [edit] December

USS Arizona ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor · December 1 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.

· December 1 – World War II: A state of emergency is declared in Malaya and the Straits Settlements.

· December 2 – World War II – Attack on Pearl Harbor: The code message "Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted to the Japanese task force, indicating that negotiations have broken down and that the attack is to be carried out according to plan.

· December 4 – The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with judge John Childs as a governor.

· December 6 – World War II – Soviet counterattacks begin against German troops
encircling Moscow. Wehrmacht is subsequently pushed back over 200 miles. · December 6 – World War II – The United Kingdom declares war on Finland.

· December 7, (December 8, Japan standard time) – The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. Tobruk's garrison is relieved.

· December 8 – World War II: The United States officially declares war on Japan.

· December 8 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Japan. · December 8 – World War II: China declares war on Japan. · December 8 – World War II: The Netherlands declares war on Japan. · December 8 – World War II: Japan launches invasions in Hong Kong, Malaya, Manila, and Singapore.

· December 8 – World War II: Japan launches invasions in the Philippines.

· December 10 – World War II: The British battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea north of Singapore.

· December 11 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind.

· December 12 – World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. · December 12 – World War II: India declares war on Japan. · December 12 – World War II: The United States seizes the French ship SS Normandie. · December 12 – World War II: The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese Imperial forces was occupied in Legaspi, Albay in Eastern Philippines.

· December 13 – Sweden's low temperature record of -53°C is set in a village within the Vilhelmina Municipality. · December 19 – World War II: Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army. · December 23 – World War II: A second Japanese landing attempt on Wake Island is successful, and the American garrison surrenders after a full night and morning of fighting. · December 24 – World War II: British forces capture Benghazi. · December 25 – World War II: The British and Canadians are defeated by the Japanese at Hong Kong. · December 26 – World War II: Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

· December 27 – World War II: British Commandos raid the Norwegian port of Vaagso, causing Hitler to reinforce the garrison and defenses, drawing vital troops away from other areas.

[edit] The Nanjing Massacre

July 7th 1937..the incident at the Marco polo bridge..started the war? ..Yes it's a root cause to the event of Japanese Invasion.