Editing 1941 (section)

== Events ==
* January 23 - The [[Iron Guard]] is dissolved.
* February 14 - The [[National Legionary State]] is dissolved. [[Ion Antonescu]] emerges as Romania's sole ruler.
* April 1 - [[Rashid Ali al-Gaylani]] seizes power in Iraq after a successful Axis-backed ''coup d'état''. 
* April 10 - The [[Ustaše]] takes control of most of Yugoslavia, establishing the Independent State of Croatia. 
* April 30 - The [[Hellenic State]] is established in Greece by the [[Axis Powers]]. 
* May 10 - [[Rudolf Hess]] flies to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom, but ends up being captured.
* May 11 - End of [[the Blitz]].
* May 13 - The [[Chetniks]] are founded by [[Draža Mihailović]].
* May 19 - [[Ho Chi Minh]] establishes the Việt Minh.
* June 1 to 2 - The ''[[Farhud]]'' [[pogrom]] is carried out against Jews in Baghdad, Iraq by order of Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. Over 180 Jews are killed and 1,000 are injured.
* June 3 - The village of Kandanos in Western Crete is [[Razing of Kandanos|razed]] by [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] forces, killing 180 people.
* June 14 - The [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] deports about 65,000 people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
* June 22 - The Axis Powers launch Operation Barbarossa, subsequently invading the Soviet Union.
* June 24 to 25 - The [[Rainiai massacre]] takes place when the [[NKVD]], with help from the Red Army, kills 70 to 80 Lituanian political prisoners in a forest near Telšiai, Lithuania.
* June 26 - The [[massacre in Pravieniskes camp]] takes place.
* June 29 - [[Adolf Hitler]] designates [[Hermann Göring]] as his successor.
* July 7 - The [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]] raises an uprising against the Nazi occupation, beginning when Žikica Jovanović Španac kill two gendarmes in the village of Bela Crkva.
* August - The Ustaše begin operation of [[Jasenovac concentration camp]].
* August 24 - [[Action T4]] is discontinued.
* September 16 - [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] becomes Shah of Iran following the abdication of his father, Reza Shah.
* October 17 - [[Hideki Tojo]] is named Prime Minister of Japan, succeeding [[Fumimaro Konoe]].
* October 22 to 24 - The [[Odessa Massacre]] takes place.
*November 8 - The [[Party of Labour of Albania]] is founded by [[Enver Hoxha]].
* December 7 - [[Imperial Japan]] launches a [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|surprise attack]] on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States formally enters [[World War II]] the following day.
* Unknown - [[Murder, Inc.]] is disbanded.