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

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.

When Dekanozov finally appeared, Ribbentrop read out a short statement saying that the Reich had been forced into " military countermeasures " because of an alleged Soviet plan to attack Germany in July 1941.

When war came in 1941, the vast majority of Methodists strongly supported the national war effort, but there were also a few ( 673 ) conscientious objectors.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, in Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army's ground forces had 303 divisions and 22 separate brigades ( 4. 8 million soldiers ), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades ( 2. 9 million soldiers ) garrisoned in the western military districts.

When a train carrying about 1, 000 German Jews arrived at Riga in Latvia on November 29, 1941, Lange simply had them shot.

When he found out about the outbreak of war in Europe, he decided to wait in Buenos Aires until the war was over, although he reported to the Polish legation in 1941 but was considered unfit for military duties.

" When he returned home for a visit late in 1941, Paley threw an " extraordinarily elaborate reception " for him at the Waldorf-Astoria.

When the US entered World War II at the end of 1941, Lombard traveled to her home state of Indiana for a war bond rally with her mother, Bess Peters, and Clark Gable's press agent, Otto Winkler.

When working on I Wanted Wings ( 1941 ), with Brian Donlevy and William Holden, he went up with a pilot to test a plane for filming.

" When the House of Representatives finally took a roll call vote on February 9, 1941, the 260 to 165 vote fell largely along party lines.

When Hitler broke the treaty by invading the USSR in June 1941, the CPUSA began to officially support the war effort.

Garson starred with Joan Crawford in When Ladies Meet in 1941, and that same year became a major box office star with the sentimental Technicolor drama, Blossoms in the Dust, which brought her the first of five consecutive Best Actress Oscar nominations, tying Bette Davis ' 1938-42 record, a record that still stands.

When the U. S. entered World War II in December 1941, LeMay was a major in the United States Army Air Forces ( he had been a 1st lieutenant as recently as 1940 ), and the commander of a newly created B-17 Flying Fortress unit, the 305th Bomb Group.

When Blankers-Koen gave birth to her first child Jan Junior in 1941, Dutch media automatically assumed her career would be over.

When Germany invaded in 1941, detailed maps from the USSR's western borders to the Volga River became an urgent task, accomplished in less than one year.

When it was re-issued in 1940 and 1941 it made an additional $ 95, 000 domestically and $ 55, 000 in foreign markets.

When Germany declared war on the Soviet Union in June 1941, he expressed his support for Jacques Doriot's recently-founded collaborationist force Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism ( LVF ):

When ratings soared on The George Gobel Show ( rated in the top ten of 1954-55 ), Paramount promoted Gobel as their new comedy star, casting him as the lead in The Birds and the Bees ( 1956 ), a remake of The Lady Eve ( 1941 ).

When the Soviet Union was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1941 the Mosin – Nagant 91 / 30 was the standard issue weapon of Soviet troops.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Gustaf V tried to write a private letter to Hitler thanking him for taking care of the " Bolshevik pest " and congratulating him on his " already achieved victories ".

When the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked O ‘ ahu's military installations on 7 December 1941, their planes bombed and strafed Hickam to eliminate air opposition and prevent U. S. planes from following them back to their aircraft carriers.

When Gianfranco Fini visited Israel in late November 2003 in the function of Italian Deputy Prime Minister, he labeled the racial laws issued by the fascist regime in 1938 as " infamous ", as also Giorgio Almirante, historic leader of MSI, had done before.

When the country under the fascist rule of Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decided to invade a weakened France, under the Vichy regime ( after the Nazi occupation of Paris ) to return lost lands and settle disputed territories.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July, Hitler and Mussolini supported the fascist and authoritarian Nationalist forces in their civil war against the Soviet-supported Spanish Republic.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Biscay supported the Republican side against the army of Francisco Franco, of fascist ideology.

When it was fashionable to be a fascist, he was a fascist.

When the National Front and the British National Party were led by John Tyndall, his record of involvement in openly Neo-Nazi groups made it far easier to assert that the National Front and BNP were fascist or Neo-Nazi in nature.

When he met with " esoteric Hitlerist " Miguel Serrano, Evola denied that he was a fascist or Hitlerist, but rather saw Metternich as a conservative ideal.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out, the Nationalist forces immediately began using the form the Spanish State rather than the Spanish Republic or the Kingdom of Spain, out of deference to the differing political sensibilities of the members of the Nationalist coalition, which included, amongst others, the anti-monarchic fascist Falangists, and the rival conservative-monarchist Carlists and Legitimist parties.

When the 4th of August Regime took power in Greece with the coup by Ioannis Metaxas in 1936, among the fascist traditions to be adopted by the regime was the fascist salute, which became the official way of saluting officials.

When Sheridan withdrew Babylon 5 from the increasingly fascist Earth Alliance in the episode " Severed Dreams ", the station was soon attacked by a fleet of EarthForce warships loyal to President Clark.

When the Continuation War ended, the Soviet Union demanded that all organisations considered by them to be paramilitary, fascist or semi-fascist be banned.

When in 1926 the Italian Federation Board resigned past a very difficult referee's strike, the fascist Lando Ferretti president of the Italian Olympic Committee ( C. O. N. I.

When the government that made him Minister of Public Education, under Giovanni Giolitti, he was ousted from power by Benito Mussolini, being replaced by the fascist Giovanni Gentile as the new Minister, with whom Croce had earlier cooperated in philosophical polemic against positivism.

When Czechoslovakia became a Communist nation in 1948, the party was again renamed the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, and supporters of genuine democracy were expelled for alleged fascist sympathies.

When it was finally run again in 1947 the name of the race was changed, because of its fascist connections, and it became known as the Circuito di Pescara.

When he attended a support demonstration for the people killed in the fire of the República Cromagnon disco, he found a hostile reception, including shouts accusing him of being " a Nazi and a fascist ".

When fascist dictatorship in Italy ended, he became professor of Ecclesiastic law at University of Modena.

When Wadleigh, a committed socialist, expressed the desire to act against growing the fascist movement in Europe, Nelson put him in touch with communists in Washington.

When the committee's final report was released, the Times said the committee " purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true " and " It also alleged that definite proof had been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington, which was to have been led by Major.

When Italy started the invasion in Greeco on 28 October 1940 there were at least two battalions of Albanian fascist militia acting against the Greeks in the Korca area.

When his party's youth organisation started organising uniformed fascist action groups in the 1930s, he saw to it that they were expelled from the party.