Timeline - 1941
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19 January 1941British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
21 January 1941Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
22 January 1941British troops capture Tobruk from the Italians.
11 February 1941British forces advance into Italian Somaliland.
12 February 1941Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli.
14 February 1941First units of German Afrika Korps arrive in North Africa.
01 March 1941Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact.
07 March 1941British forces arrive in Greece.
11 March 1941President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law.
27 March 1941Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the USA fleet at Pearl Harbor.
27 March 1941Battle of Cape Matapan begins.
03 April 1941Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.
06 April 1941Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
14 April 1941Rommel attacks Tobruk.
17 April 1941Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
27 April 1941Greece capitulates
27 April 1941German troops enter Athens.
01 May 1941German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
09 May 1941The German submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board was the latest Enigma cryptography.
10 May 1941Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland.




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