Timeline of World War 2 from 31 Jul 1941Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when Hermann Göring instructs Reinhard Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution

31 Jul 1941: Hermann Göring instructs Reinhard Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution

1 Aug 1941: United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states

14 Aug 1941: Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter

20 Aug 1941: Nazi siege of Leningrad begins

1 Sep 1941: Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars

3 Sep 1941: First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

19 Sep 1941: Nazis take Kiev

29 Sep 1941: Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev

2 Oct 1941: German advance on Moscow

16 Oct 1941: Germans take Odessa

24 Oct 1941: Germans take Kharkov

30 Oct 1941: Germans reach Sevastopol

13 Nov 1941: British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat

20 Nov 1941: Germans take Rostov

27 Nov 1941: Soviet troops retake Rostov

6 Dec 1941: Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow

7 Dec 1941: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

7 Dec 1941: Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree

8 Dec 1941: United States and Britain declare war on Japan

11 Dec 1941: Hitler declares war on the United States

16 Dec 1941: Germans begin a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa

19 Dec 1941: Hitler takes complete control of the German Army

1 Jan 1942: Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations

13 Jan 1942: Germany begins a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA

21 Jan 1942: Germany begin counter-offensive from El Agheila

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Timeline of World War 2 from 31 Jul 1941

Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when Hermann Göring instructs Reinhard Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution