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The state of the Allies and Axis powers in March 1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941). 1 March Hitler gives orders for the expansion of Auschwitz prison camp, to be run by Commandant Rudolf Höss. Bulgaria officially signs the Tripartite Pact. 4 March
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million ...
The two measures recorded during the 1941 campaign both stand to this day and are regarded by practically all to be unattainable in the game today. 1941 saw the great Joltin' Joe DiMaggio step up to the plate in 56 consecutive baseball games and hit safely to break a record that had stood since 1897 when Wee Willie Keeler totaled 45 consecutive ...
However, in 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, putting an end to the peacetime. The majority of major battles in the Eastern Theatre from 1941 until the end of the war in 1945 were fought between the two powers. The following timeline indicates major events taking place on the Eastern Front.
1941-03-21 United Kingdom Australia Italy: Allies Bardia: Western Desert campaign: African Front: 1941-01-03 1941-01-05 Australia United Kingdom Free France Italy: Allies Klisura Pass: Greco–Italian War: Mediterranean Front: 1941-01-06 1941-01-11 Greece Italy: Allies Operation Excess: Battle of the Mediterranean: Mediterranean Front: 1941-01 ...
Soviet Union invades Poland, Finland, occupies Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romanian region of Bessarabia from 1939 to 1941. Germany faces the United Kingdom in the Battle of Britain (1940). It was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign up until that date.
The Luftwaffe mounted what would turn out to be the last major bombing raid on London, but one of the most devastating. Over 1,400 people were killed and 700 acres were set on fire, with the Houses of Parliament among the buildings damaged. [7] [16] The Strike of the 100,000 began in Nazi-occupied Belgium when workers went on strike for a wage ...
This was the earliest major league clinching date ever for a 154-game season. [10] German submarines U-156 and U-586 were commissioned. Born: Ken Harrelson, baseball player and broadcaster, in Woodruff, South Carolina; Sushilkumar Shinde, politician, in Solapur, British India