World War II

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12/25/1941.....Japan invades Hong Kong.

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03/01/1941.....Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact. beginning part of the Axis.

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03/11/1941.....The U.S. Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act giving Roosevelt the authority to sell, transfer, or lease war goods to the government of any Allied country, thereby effectively ending American neutrality.

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03/25/1941.....Yugoslavia signs the Tripartite pact, briefly becoming part of the Axis, but the pro-German government is toppled two days later.

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03/30/1941.....The German Afrika Korps begins its offensive in North Africa.

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04/10/1941.....The U. S. occupies Greenland.

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04/13/1941.....The USSR and Japan sign a neutrality pact

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05/27/1941.....Bismarck, German battleship sunk by British warships while she was on her maiden voyage.

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05/31/1941.....German airborne troops defeat the British in Crete.

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06/04/1941.....Britain invades Iraq and overthrows its pro-German government

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06/22/1941.....Germany invades Russia, thereby beginning Operation Barbarossa. Italy and Romania declare war on the USSR

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06/23/1941.....Hungary and Slovakia declare war on the USSR.

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06/26/1941.....Finland declares war on the USSR

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07/07/1941.....The U.S. occupies Iceland

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09/15/1941.....Germany begins the Siege of Leningrad. It would not end until January 1944.

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10/01/1941.....The U.S. begins supplying the USSR under the Lend-Lease act.

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10/02/1941.....Germany begins the drive towards Moscow

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11/22/1941.....Britain gives Finland an ultimatum, halt all offensive operations against the USSR or face a war with the Allies.

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12/05/1941.....Germany abandons its attack on Moscow, the USSR counterattacks.

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01/01/1942.....The Declaration of the United Nations is signed by leaders of 26 nations.