06/22/09

1941 – Nineteen-Forty-One

 22 January – The Italian garrison at Tobruk surrenders

 3 February – The battle of Keren starts in the East African campaign

 6 February – Erwin Rommel takes command of the Afrika corps

 4 March – British commandos raid the Norwegian Lofoten Islands

 8 March – US Senate passes the Lend-Lease Bill by 60 votes to 31

 28 March – Naval battle off Cape Mutapan, Greece

 6 April – Germany invades Yugoslavia and declares war on Greece

 27 April – German forces enter Athens, Greece

 10 May – Rudolf Hess, deputy leader of the Nazi Party, is captured in Great Britain after he drops by parachute from his Messerschmitt Me110

 27 May – The Bismarck is sunk

 22 June – Operation Barbarossa is initiated

 7 August – Stalin takes over as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet military

 8 September – German and Finnish forces begin siege of Leningrad

 23 September – The comité National François is set up in Britain and General de Gaulle is put at its head

 2 October – Operation Typhoon, the main German advance to Masco is initiated

 7 November – The Lend-Lease Act is extended to the Russians

 7 December – At 7:55 a.m. the Japanese conduct a surprise attach on Pearl Harbor and other US Navy positions

 8 December – U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan

 11 December – Italy and Germany declare war on United States