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| 1941 May 19 |
| | The Vietminh is founded as a guerrilla force to liberate Vietnam from the Japanese, and Ho Chi Minh soon emerges as the leader | |
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| 1941 May 27 |
| | Germany's latest battleship, the Bismarck, is sunk in the Atlantic with the loss of nearly all her 2222 crew | |
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| 1941 May 27 |
| | With Iceland as an Allied base, convoys can now be escorted by warships for the entire Atlantic crossing | |
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| 1941 May |
| | German forces evict the British from the island of Crete after a week-long battle | |
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| 1919 June 22 |
| | German armies cross the border to invade Russia on a front from the Baltic to southern Poland | |
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| 1941 June 27 |
| | June 27 - the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appoints Tito to head a guerrilla force to resist the recent German invasion of the country | |
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| 1941 July |
| | Churchill appoints Claude Auchinleck as British commander in North Africa and the Middle East | |
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| 1941 July |
| | The systematic shooting of Russian Jews by German Einsatzgruppen is the first step in the development of the Holocaust | |
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| 1941 July |
| | Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) is formed for unorthodox guerrilla operations in the north African desert | |
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| 1941 July 16 |
| | Less than four weeks after crossing the Russian border, a German army is within 200 miles of Moscow | |
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