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
The Final Solution was a Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews during World War II. This pol...

1 Aug 1941: United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states
The US announces an oil embargo against "aggressors."||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_W...

14 Aug 1941: Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued on 14 August 1941, that defined the Allie...

20 Aug 1941: Nazi siege of Leningrad begins
The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military blockade under...

1 Sep 1941: Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 there were initially different local decrees requiring J...

3 Sep 1941: First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz
The Nazi concentration and extermination camps, including Auschwitz and Majdanek, used hydrogen cyan...

19 Sep 1941: Nazis take Kiev
During the Second World War, Nazi Germany occupied Kiev on 19 September 1941 (see the Battle of Kiev...

29 Sep 1941: Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev
Babi Yar, a location in Kiev, became a site of one of the most infamous Nazi WWII war crimes. During...

2 Oct 1941: German advance on Moscow
The Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically signific...

16 Oct 1941: Germans take Odessa
The Odessa massacre is the name given to the mass murder of Jewish and Romani population of Odessa a...

24 Oct 1941: Germans take Kharkov
The 1st Battle of Kharkov so named by Wilhelm Keitel was the 1941 tactical battle for the city of Kh...

30 Oct 1941: Germans reach Sevastopol
During World War II, Sevastopol withstood intensive bombardment by the Germans in 1941–42, supported...

13 Nov 1941: British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat
Ark Royal served in some of the most active naval theatres of the Second World War. She was involved...

20 Nov 1941: Germans take Rostov
The Battle of Rostov (1941) was a battle of the Eastern Front of World War II, fought around Rostov-...

27 Nov 1941: Soviet troops retake Rostov
The Soviet counter-attack delivered as part of the general Donbass-Rostov Strategic Defensive Operat...

6 Dec 1941: Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow
On 5 December 1941, the counteroffensive for "removing the immediate threat to Moscow" started on th...

7 Dec 1941: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during pl...

7 Dec 1941: Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree
Nacht und Nebel (German for "Night and Fog") was a directive from Adolf Hitler on 7 December 1941 ta...

8 Dec 1941: United States and Britain declare war on Japan
On December 8, 1941, the United States Congress declared war (Public Law 77-328, 55 STAT 795) on the...

11 Dec 1941: Hitler declares war on the United States
On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States decla...

16 Dec 1941: Germans begin a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa
In February 1941, El Agheila was taken by the British Western Desert Force following their destructi...

19 Dec 1941: Hitler takes complete control of the German Army
Hitler relieved Walther von Brauchitsch as Commander-in-Chief of the German Army and took personal c...

1 Jan 1942: Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations
The Declaration by United Nations, on 1 January 1942, was the basis of the modern UN. The term Unite...

13 Jan 1942: Germany begins a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA
The Second Happy Time lasted from January 1942 to about August of that year and involved several Ger...

21 Jan 1942: Germany begin counter-offensive from El Agheila
Rommel's Afrika Korps begins a surprise counter-offensive at El Agheila; his troops, with new reinfo...

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Timeline of World War 2 from 31 Jul 1941