Timeline of World War 2 from 14 Feb 1941Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa

14 Feb 1941: First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa
The Afrika Korps or German Africa Corps was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the Nor...

7 Mar 1941: British forces arrive in Greece
At the time of the German invasion, Greece was at war with Fascist Italy, following the Italian inva...

11 Mar 1941: President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act
President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941. It permitted him to "sell,...

27 Mar 1941: A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government
In April 1941, shortly after Germany and Yugoslavia completed negotiations for Yugoslavia to join th...

3 Apr 1941: Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq
The Kingdom of Iraq was briefly an ally of the Axis, fighting the United Kingdom in the Anglo-Iraqi ...

6 Apr 1941: Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
The Armed Forces High Command issued Directive No. 20 on 13 December 1940, outlining the Greek camp...

14 Apr 1941: Germans attack Tobruk
The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from E...

17 Apr 1941: Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis
At 5:12 AM on 6 April 1941, German, Italian and Hungarian forces invaded Yugoslavia.The German Air...

27 Apr 1941: Greece surrenders to the Nazis
The Battle of Greece is the common name for the invasion of Allied Greece by Nazi Germany in April ...

1 May 1941: German attack on Tobruk is repulsed
A thick mist rose and German tanks moved eastwards instead of south-east and then ran into the new m...

10 May 1941: Heavy German bombing of London
The bombing failed to demoralise the British into surrender or significantly damage the war economy....

15 May 1941: British counter-attack in Egypt begins
Operation Compass was a success and the Western Desert Force advanced across Libya capturing Cyrenai...

24 May 1941: British ship Hood is sunk by the Bismarck
In May 1941, she and the battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to intercept the German battleship ...

27 May 1941: The Bismarck is sunk by the British Navy
The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300...

Jun 1941: Nazi SS-Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder
Einsatzgruppen "task forces" were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that ...

4 Jun 1941: Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq
During World War II, the Iraqi regime of Regent 'Abd al-Ilah was overthrown in 1941 by the Golden Sq...

8 Jun 1941: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon
The Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, was the British invasion of Vichy Fren...

14 Jun 1941: United States freezes German and Italian assets in America
President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8785, freezing all German and Italian assets in the Unite...

22 Jun 1941: Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union,...

28 Jun 1941: Germans capture Minsk
The Soviet census of 1926 showed 53,700 Jews living in Minsk (constituting close to 41% of the city'...

3 Jul 1941: Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy
When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, many district governments took the initiative t...

10 Jul 1941: Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine
A Dnieper Flotilla was constituted in June 1931, but disbanded in June 1940, its vessels distributed...

12 Jul 1941: Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets

14 Jul 1941: British occupy Syria
On 10 July, as the Australian 21st Brigade was on the verge of entering Beirut, Dentz sought an armi...

26 Jul 1941: Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations
Britain followed the United States in imposing economic sanctions on Japan and freezing all Japanese...

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Timeline of World War 2 from 14 Feb 1941