WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened March to September 1941

World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. (10. May 1941)

World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica. (31. August 1941)

Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece. (21. April 1941)

Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war. (24. August 1941)

World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk. (1. May 1941)

World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. (5. June 1941)

Fantana Alba massacre: between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Guards. (1. April 1941)

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief. (20. July 1941)

Japanese troops occupy French Indochina. (27. July 1941)

World War II: German troops enter Athens. (27. April 1941)

World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners. (5. August 1941)

Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk. (6. July 1941)

World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre. (30. September 1941)

World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. (14. August 1941)

World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation. (7. July 1941)

A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. (13. April 1941)

Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. (5. May 1941)

Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. (22. June 1941)

World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen. (24. May 1941)

Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon. (11. September 1941)

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