* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

* 1941 – World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.

The country joined the Axis Powers in 1941, when German troops preparing to invade Yugoslavia and Greece reached the Bulgarian borders and demanded permission to pass through its territory.

On 1 March 1941, Bulgaria signed the Tripartite Pact and Tsar Boris III officially joined the Axis bloc.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

The Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 allowed the Croatian radical right Ustaše to come into power, forming the " Independent State of Croatia ", led by Ante Pavelić, who assumed the role of Poglavnik (" Head-man ") Nezavisne Drzave Hrvatske (" Leader of the Independent State of Croatia ").

In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers ' war effort.

After initial successes ( mainly the conquest of western Poland, much of Scandinavia, France and the Balkans before 1941 ) the Axis powers began to over-extend themselves in 1941.

In an effort to demonstrate peaceful intentions toward Germany, on 13 April 1941, Stalin oversaw the signing of a neutrality pact with Axis power Japan.

* 1941 – World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers ( Trinaestojulski ustanak ), the first in Axis-controlled countries.

* Siege of Leningrad, 1941 – 44, by the Axis armies during World War II

* 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.

* 1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.

* 1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.

In an effort to demonstrate peaceful intentions toward Germany, on 13 April 1941, the Soviets signed a neutrality pact with Axis power Japan.

Beginning on 22 June 1941, over 3. 9 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare.

After Germany conquered the Balkan states, and the Axis ( Germany and Italy ) became neighbours with Turkey in the Aegean Sea, Turkey signed a Treaty of Friendship and Non-Aggression with Germany on June 18, 1941.

In June 1941, the European Axis launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, giving a start to the largest land theatre of war in history, which tied down the major part of the Axis ' military forces for the rest of the war.

In December 1941, the Empire of Japan, which aimed to dominate East Asia and Indochina, joined the Axis, attacked the United States and European territories in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the West Pacific.

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded by the Axis powers in 1941, and because of the events that followed, was officially abolished in 1943 and 1945.

* May 6 – WWII: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops ( the first was on December 11, 1941 ).

In 1941, Ultra exerted a powerful effect on the North African desert campaign, against the German army, under General Erwin Rommel.

They used paratroops troops in several battles in the Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941 – 42.

Priestley had a deep love of classical music, and in 1941 he played an important part in organising and supporting a fund-raising campaign on behalf of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which was struggling to establish itself as a self-governing body after the withdrawal of Sir Thomas Beecham.

The Barbarossa campaign of 1941 came as a complete surprise to the Soviets, resulting in the catastrophic loss of over 4 million Soviet soldiers killed or captured.

Although a significant part of the urban population had been captured by Germany in the 1941 campaign, the Soviet economy immediately went to a total war footing and was soon outproducing the German economy in war materiel.

The code word Dortmund was radioed to initiate the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign against the Soviet Union.

Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō, himself a veteran of the Manchurian campaign, appointed Kishi Minister of Commerce and Industry in 1941, and he held this position until Japan's surrender in 1945.

The term Great Patriotic War ( ( acronym " ВОВ "), Velíkaya Otéchestvennaya voyná ,) is used in Russia and former republics of the Soviet Union to describe the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 in the many fronts of the eastern campaign of World War II between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with its allies.

By 1941, she was the chauffeur for a medical officer of the 13th Demi-Brigade of the French Foreign Legion, during the Syrian campaign in which Vichy French legionnaires fought Free French legionnaires.

In May 1941, on his return from Greece, Wilson was appointed GOC Palestine and Trans Jordan and oversaw the successful Syria-Lebanon campaign, in which predominantly Australian, British, Indian, and Free French forces overcame Vichy French forces in fierce fighting.

By 31 January, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, reported that the Italian military forces in East Africa were down to 67 operational aircraft with limited fuel and on 24 October 1941, about one month prior to the final Italian surrender, the last Italian aircraft of the campaign was shot down.

In January 1941, Wavell again asked him to report to O ' Connor and assess the progress of the campaign in order to distill what could be learned from its success.

He then worked on animated shorts as well as maps for Allied propaganda documentary films, followed by his War Bonds campaign films: V for Victory ( 1941 ), 5 for 4 ( 1942 ), Hen Hop ( 1942 ) and Dollar Dance ( 1943 ).

In the chaos of the retreat from the Greek mainland campaign of 1941, London gave Freyberg command of the Allied forces during the Battle of Crete.

In June 1941, at the onset of the Russian campaign it was taken over by the German forces.

In 1941, the newly founded Lake Mills-Aztalan Historical Society began an energetic campaign to preserve the stockade area.

Because of its pro-Soviet position during the war, the Daily Worker was suppressed by the wartime coalition's ( Labour ) Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, between 21 January 1941 and 7 September 1942, when the ban was lifted following a campaign supported by Hewlett Johnson, the Dean of Canterbury, and Professor J.

The need was now pressing, as Germany had declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941, and Galland was keen to build up a force that could withstand the resurgence of the Western Allied Air Forces in preparation for what would become known as the Defence of the Reich campaign.

Later in 1941 the Japanese government asked Toyota to produce a light truck for the Japan military campaign.

Crisp's Story of British M3 Honeys in N. Africa campaign 1941 near Tobruk.

Starting in July 1941, the Jewish inhabitants were subjected to mass extermination by shooting in a German campaign carried out by four Einsatzgruppen (" operational groups ") specially organized for the purpose.

By July 1941, the emblematic use of the letter V had spread through occupied Europe, and on July 19, Winston Churchill put the British government ’ s stamp of approval on the V for Victory campaign in a speech, from which point he started using the V hand sign.

Before the beginning of Operation Barbarossa ( the eastern front campaign against the Soviet Union ) on 22 June 1941, the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg suggested the administrative division of conquered Soviet territory in the following Reichskommissariate, only the first two of which would become reality through military success:

Once in power, from September 14, 1940, until January 21, 1941, the Legion ratcheted up the level of already harsh anti-Semitic legislation and pursued, with impunity, a campaign of pogroms and of political assassinations.