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
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