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1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 941st year ...
American Design exhibit 1941, Chicago, poster by WPA Art Project September 4 – World War II : The USS Greer becomes the first United States Navy ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power.
1941: Soviet defenders at the Battle of Rostov, Commonwealth troops of South Asian descent operate an anti-aircraft gun during the Western Desert campaign, a British torpedo bomber returns from attacking the German battleship Bismarck, an American battleship burns after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
January 23, 1941: Groundbreaking for the NACA’s Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory The groundbreaking ceremony for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ' new Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field) took place in Cleveland , Ohio .
President Roosevelt made the Infamy Speech (with its famous opening line "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,") to a Joint session of Congress. Within one hour the United States declared war on Japan. Lifelong pacifist Jeannette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war.
The Orson Welles-directed drama film Citizen Kane had its world premiere at the Palace Theatre in New York City.; The week-long May Blitz of Liverpool began. [1]Fighting in western Ethiopia between the Italian and Belgian Congolese colonial forces was halted for six weeks due to the rainy season.
Hitler declares war against the United States on 11 December 1941. On 11 December 1941, three days after the United States declared war on Japan, [24] Germany declared war on the U.S.. Italy also declared war on the U.S. the same day. That same day, the United States, in its turn, declared war on Germany and Italy. [25]
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor. Preliminary planning for an attack on Pearl Harbor to protect the move into the "Southern Resource Area", the Japanese term for the Dutch East Indies and Southeast Asia generally, began early in 1941 under the auspices of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, then commanding Japan's Combined Fleet.