President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be “a date which will live in infamy” after Japan bomb Pearl Harbour.
Tag: 1941
23 December 1941
After 15 days of fighting for Wake Island, the Japanese Army occupies the island.
25 December 1941
Battle of Hong Kong during World War 2 ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
12 December 1941
Adolf Hitler first announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
31 May 1941
Hermann Göring, directs Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for…
25 December 1941
The Battle of Hong Kong ends and begins the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.