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The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, months before the US officially entered the war. The joint statement, later dubbed the Atlantic Charter, outlined the aims of the United States and the United Kingdom for the postwar world as follows ...
The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre ended with a total of 23,600 Jews killed. During a flight from Uman to Lvov carrying Hitler, Mussolini, Himmler, Ribbentrop and others, Mussolini asked to pilot the aircraft himself. Hitler was so surprised that he said nothing and managed only an awkward smile.
January. 1 January. Accounting of the next night's bombing of London reveals that the Old Bailey, the Guildhall, and eight churches by Christopher Wren were destroyed or badly damaged. RAF bombs aircraft factories in Bremen, Germany. 2 January: German bombers bomb Ireland for the second night in a row.
1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE ... The Atlantic Charter (released August 14), ...
August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 139 days remain until the end of the year. ... 1941 – World War II: ...
The Declaration by United Nations was the main treaty that formalized the Allies of World War II and was signed by 47 national governments between 1942 and 1945. On 1 January 1942, during the Arcadia Conference in Washington D.C., the Allied "Big Four"—the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China—signed a short document which later came to be known as the United ...
August 15, 1940 A new system of SC convoys is initiated between Canada and the British Isles, to provide convoy protection for slow ships. August 16, 1940 U-48 sinks Hedrun from convoy OB 197. August 23, 1940 U-57 sinks Cumberland and St. Dunstan from convoy OB 202. Aircraft sink Llanishen and Makalla from convoy OA 203. August 24, 1940
Victory in Europe Day. Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day[ 1]) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – 15 August 1945 ...