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British forces invade Ethiopia, January 15, 1941

Greek troops push Italian forces into Albania, 1941
Bulgaria joins the Axis, March 1, 1941
German forces invade Greece and Yugoslavia, April 6, 1941
Japan signs nonaggression pact with the USSR, April 13, 1941
(German troops invade their Soviet allies, June 22, 1941)
Greece completely occupied by Axis, end of April, 1941

Britain's Royal Navy destroys German battleship Bismark, May 1941
Germany invades Soviet Union, June 22, 1941
US troops land in Iceland, July 7, 1941
Atlantic Charter announced, August 14, 1941
German forces capture Kiev, USSR, September 1941
(The United States Pacific Fleet is destroyed in Pearl Harbor
by a surprise attack by the Empire of Japan, December 7, 1941)
Soviet troops repulse German advance on Moscow, December, 1941
Japanese Imperial Fleet bombs US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor,
December 7, 1941
The United States of America declares war on the Empire of Japan,
December 8, 1941

China declares war on the Axis, December 9, 1941
Japanese capture Guam, December 10, 1941
Germany and Italy declare war on US, December 11, 1941
United States declares war on Germany and Italy, December 11,
1941
Wake Island falls to Japanese, December 23, 1941
Hong Kong captured by Japanese, December 25, 1941
(United States of America President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
signs the Declaration of War against Japan, December 8, 1941)
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