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World War Two
Part 4
1941
The not so neutral U.S.
While not officially in the war the U.S. still
took sides.
March 11, 1941 The Lend-Lease Act
Allowed the US to provide goods and
services to nations whose defense was
considered vital to U.S. defense…the UK
September 1941 The Flying Tigers
With U.S. Government approval 100 U.S.
Airmen flew U.S. supplied planes for the
Chinese against Japan
The War in Africa
January: The British invade Ethiopia and Italian
Somaliland. By May Emperor Haile Selassie
is back on the throne
March: Rommel arrives in Africa with the
Panzer Afrika Korps and takes charge.
Rommel advances, takes Tobruk and enters
Egypt
November/December: Reinforced by Australian
troops the British push Rommel back
The Balkans
March: An anti-German regime takes over
Yugoslavia
Hitler blames the failed invasion of Greece
on Italy.
April: The German invade and take
Yugoslavia and Greece
Crete falls by the end of May
The Invasion of Russia
June: Germany breaks the non-aggression
pact with the USSR, and Invades
Three Army groups attack simultaneously
on a 2000 mile long front
The Northern Group is stalled trying to take
Leningrad…which is besieged
The Central Group moves quickly by
November it is threatening Moscow
The Southern group takes large parts of the
Ukraine
Moscow is Spared
The German High Command is ready
to take Moscow, Split the Soviet
Army and crush it
Against his generals’ advice Hitler
detached Panzer divisions from the
Central to the other Army Groups
Moscow and the Soviet Army are
Spared
Japan Attacks
Nearly simultaneously Japan attacks Pearl
Harbor (Dec 7), Hong Kong, Malaya and
the Philippines (Dec 8) in hopes of
knocking the British and the U.S. out of
East Asia
Dec 10 Japanese troops land on Luzon
MacArthur wisely retreats into Bataan
rather than defending Manila, if he had
not the whole army may have been lost.