Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. The National Liberation War of Macedonia was part of the broader Yugoslav resistance movement against Axis occupation…
Tag: 1941
14 August 1941
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. In August 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S….
22 June 1941
World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet…
23 February 1941
Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg. Plutonium is a radioactive metallic chemical element with the symbol Pu and atomic number…
11 September 1941
Construction begins on The Pentagon. The Pentagon, officially known as the “Pentagon Building,” is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense and is…
13 April 1941
A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. The Pact of Neutrality between the Soviet Union and Japan was a bilateral agreement…
9 February 1941
Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
31 July 1941
The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a…
1 June 1941
The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.