In July 1941, the invading German forces enjoyed almost complete success over the Soviet Union’s Red Army across a broad front stretching from the Baltic States to the Ukraine. The events of…

In June 1941, German military planning was firmly focused Operation Barbarossa, the impending invasion of the Soviet Union. With the defeat of British, Commonwealth and Greek forces on Crete, Nazi Germany and…

In May 1941 the German leader Adolf Hitler and his military commanders prepared for the invasion of the Soviet Union. In the west, the German airforce’s sustained blitz against the United Kingdom…

In April 1941, while allied forces enjoyed military successes against Italian forces in Abyssinia, Somalia and East Africa and against Imperial Japanese troops in China, Germany remained the dominant military power in…

In March 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt confirmed American support for the war effort of Britain and her allies against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan ‘until total victory has been…

In February 1941, while the fighting continued at the peripheries of the Nazi German and Fascist Italian empires, significant events throughout the month served to highlight the increasing international tensions which would expand the European war into a global conflict.