Conflicts in 1941

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II. The air raid on Pearl Harbor, which was launched from aircraft carriers, resulted in the U.S. declaring war on Japan the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning.

8 September 1941 – 27 January 1944 blockade of Leningrad by the Axis

1941 World War II campaign in Russia

1941–1944 Finnish war against USSR

194–1943 military campaign of World War II

conflict between Italy and Greece, which lasted from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941

1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete

1941 invasion during World War II

WWII German invasion of Greece and Allied resistance, April 1941

1941 battle resulting in a large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II

1941 German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers during the Second World War

World War II Eastern Front battle (1941–1942)

British-led Allied military campaign against Iraq under Rashid Ali during World War II

1940–45 conflict of World War II

1941 battle during the second phase of Operation Barbarossa

1941 military operation during the Second World War in North Africa

part of the European theater of World War II

1941–1942 World War II military campaign

1941 battle

1941 Eastern front battle of World War II

war between Thailand and Vichy France (1940-1941)

1941 battle

1941 Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon

1941 military Confrontation in North Africa During the Second World War

1942 military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War

1941 naval engagement of World War II

1940-1941 series of battles fought in East Africa as part of World War II

1941 siege in World War II

1941 naval battle between ships of the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine

1941 World War II battle

encirclement of the 6th and 12th Soviet armies during 1941 German offensive on the Eastern Front

1942 World War II military campaign

1941 battle of World War II

British Army operation during the Second World War in June 1941

South American border war fought between 5–31 July 1941 between Ecuador and Peru

1941 battle

German–Finnish military operation during World War II, to cut off and capture the key Soviet port at Murmansk through attacks from Finnish and Norwegian territory

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1941 WWII campaign

1941 Empire of Japan invaded Thailand

1941 battle on the Eastern Front of World War II

German bombing of Belgrade, Yugoslavia during World War 2

World War II military offensive

1941 massacre of Jews in Kaunas, Lithuania

evacuation of the Baltic Fleet and pro-Soviet citizens from Tallinn

coup d'état

1941 battle

Japan's second attempt at taking the city of Changsha, China

uprising by Lithuanians against the retreating Red Army in 1941

1941 military offensive

Vainakh revolt against the Soviet authorities

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1941 battle in Africa

strikes organized on 25 and 26 February 1941 as an act of resistance against the expulsion of Jews from Dutch society by the German occupiers

Italian frogman raid on British warships in Alexandria in 1941

1941 British Combined Operations raid during World War II

1940 bombing campaign on British-controlled mandatory Palestine in World War Two by Fascist Italy

1941 battle

1941 battle in WWII