Most of central Asmara was built between 1935 and 1941, so effectively the Italians managed to build almost an entire city, in just six years.

When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.

The biggest extension of Eritrea was reached during the Italian empire ( 1936 – 1941 ), when northern parts of conquered Ethiopia were assigned to Eritrea by the Italians as a reward for the Eritrean " Ascaris '" help in the conquest of Ethiopia

After the defeat of the Italians by the Ethiopians who were assisted by soldiers from Britain in 1941, Haile Selassie was restored to the throne but Victor Emmanuel did not relinquish his claim to the title until 1943.

During World War II Thessaloniki was heavily bombarded by Fascist Italy ( with 232 people dead, 871 wounded and over 800 buildings damaged or destroyed in November 1940 alone ), and, the Italians having failed to succeed in their invasion of Greece, it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany on 8 April 1941 and remained under German occupation until 30 October 1944 when it was liberated by the Greek People's Liberation Army.

By 1941 the Italians had suffered defeats in Greece and against the British in Egypt.

During the Greco-Italian War, Corfu was occupied by the Italians in April 1941.

From 1940 to 1941, it was occupied by the Italians and was part of Italian East Africa.

Although Greece eventually won the war, it was not long before the German army joined the Italians in the Battle of Greece, in April 1941.

After December 1941, some Italians launched a limited guerrilla war in Ethiopia and Eritrea that lasted until the summer of 1943 when Italy left the war, ( see Armistice with Italy ).

By March 1941, Hitler had dispatched General Erwin Rommel along with the German Africa Corps to bolster the Italians in Libya.

After the defeat of the Italian 10th Army on 7 February 1941 during Operation Compass, the Italians were reinforced by German units ( Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel ) and the British forces were forced out of Libya, leaving a besieged garrison at Tobruk.

On May 5, 1941, five years after the Italians had captured his capital, Emperor Haile Selassie entered Addis Ababa in triumph.

In 1941, when Axis forces occupied Greece, the Ionian Islands ( except Kythera ) were handed over to the Italians, who in their three years of rule attempted to Italianize the population of Corfu ( as has happened with the Corfiot Italians ).

On April 6, 1941 German forces, supported by the Italians, Hungarians and the Bulgarians, engaged in combat with the Greeks and simultaneously invaded Yugoslavia.

On January 18 and January 19, 1941, the British launched offensives against the Italians: Cunningham's force from Kenya into Italian Somaliland and southern Ethiopia and to the north Platt's divisions from the Sudan into Eritrea.

In late March 1941, soon after the arrival of German forces ( the Afrika Korps ) in Tripoli, Libya to reinforce the Italians, their commander ( General Erwin Rommel )— although ordered to remain on the defensive — quickly captured the British front line position at El Agheila.

Internment of ' enemy aliens ' by the U. S. government began two months prior to Executive Order 9066 on December 8, 1941, immediately after the attack at Pearl Harbor and included Germans, Italians, and Hungarians, not just the Japanese living on the U. S. West Coast.

The British later dismantled it in 1941, salvaging the diesel engines during their eleven year occupation after defeating the Italians in World War II.

In early 1941 the squadron was sent to reinforce the Royal Air Force squadrons in Greece, fighting in the Greek Campaign first against the Italians and then the Germans.

He served in World War II initially organising logistics at the Headquarters of 7th Armoured Division which was engaged in fighting the Italians in North Africa: he was mentioned in despatches on 1 April 1941 and again on 8 July 1941 and awarded the MC on 9 September 1942.

On 22 January 1941, the Italian Tobruk fell to the AIF and 25, 000 Italians became prisoners.

Early in 1941 they were assigned to a script titled Hot Nocturne.

The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions (), which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941.

After his death from cancer in 1941 his manuscripts were curated by his linguist friends who also worked to spread the influence of Whorf's ideas on the relation between language, culture and cognition.

Blitzkrieg operations were very effective during the campaigns of 1939 – 1941.

After 1941 – 42, armoured formations were increasingly used as a mobile reserve against Allied breakthroughs.

Other continuing cars in the series were a 1941 Packard 180 with a Victoria body designed by Howard " Dutch " Darrin ( license plate number 178344 ) and a 1973 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine ( mobile telephone number KL 17811 ).

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

He said of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ): " Those who consumed human flesh, or dealt with the human liver trading from dissecting rooms ... were accounted as the political criminals ..." And of the building of Northern Railway Prisoners Camp (" SevZhelDorLag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, " An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp.

In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.

Earlier censuses were taken in 1872 ( the first ), 1900, 1920, 1941, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2000 and 2010.

During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, censuses were conducted in 1931 and 1921 ; the census in 1941 was never conducted due to the outbreak of WWII.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 all federal programs were revised to emphasize the war effort.

Some former CCC sites in good condition were reactivated from 1941 to 1947 as Civilian Public Service camps where conscientious objectors performed " work of national importance " as an alternative to military service.

In 1941 they were swept by the Boston Bruins, and in 1942 they lost a seven-game series to Toronto after winning the first three games.

From July 1, 1941 to June 6, 1969, when the Army stopped publishing awards of the DSM in Department of the Army General Orders, over 2, 800 further awards were made.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

The initial, formal killings of the Final Solution were undertaken by the SS Einsatzgruppen ( Task Forces ) death squads who followed the Wehrmacht during the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the USSR in June 1941.

The camps at Treblinka, Bełżec, and Sobibor, were constructed during Operation Reinhard ( October 1941 – November 1943 ), for the extermination of Poland's Jews.

Finland and Nazi Germany were " co-belligerents " against Soviet Union during Continuation War ( 1941 – 44 ), but a separate peace with Soviet Union led to the Finnish-German Lapland War ( 1944 – 45 ).

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.