1941.
MAY 12th	Because the House of Commons has been destroyed by enemy bombs MPs meet in the House of Lords for the first time.
14th	French Police round up 1,000 Jews and hand them over to the Germans.
24th	Royal Navy Battleship HMS Hood is sunk by the Bismarck - 1,421 sailors die.
31st	First US food ship arrives in the UK.
	Royal Navy Battleship HMS Royal Oak
JUNE 1941
	Hitler attacks Russia. Stalin was stunned and almost has a nervous breakdown. He had been warned by both the US and the Foreign Office of Hitler's plans but ignored them.
13th	Marshall Petain announces the arrest of a further 12,000 Jews.
17th	RAF reveals "radio-location' has been Britain's key weapon against German bombers.
22nd	Germany invades the USSR on a 1,800 mile front.
26th	Army stages a huge practise mock invasion of Ireland.
	Russian mother protecting her baby amid the destruction of her home.
JULY 1941	Britain decides to build a Uranium bomb. It turned out to be too large a task and the project was taken over by the USA.
16th	Smolensk falls to Germans and they advance on Moscow and Leningrad.
24th	Marshall Petain expels British from Vichy France.
AUGUST	Hess crash lands in Britain
lst	Himmler and Hitler Fainting when his coat is splashed with brains, Himmler orders research into alternative methods of mass murder.
2nd	Roosevelt sends aid to USSR. Amongst this were 300,000 Dodge 6 x 6 Heavy Transporters.
12th	U boat sinks royal Canadian ship Picotee. Britain sends 2 squadrons (40 aircraft) to Russia.
14th	Churchill and Roosevelt meet secretly on a warship (off Newfoundland) and work out the details and then proclaim The Atlantic Charter 1. Their countries seek no agrgandisement, or other. 2. They desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned. 3. They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them. 4. They will endeavour, with due respect to their existing obligations, to further the enjoyment by all States, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity. 5. They desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field, with the object of securing for all, improved labour standards, economic advancement and social security. 6. After the final destruction of Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want. 7. Such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance, 8. They believe all the nations of the world, for realisitic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to the abandonment of the use of force. Since no future peace can be maintained if land, sea, or air armaments continue to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside of their frontiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and permanent system of of general security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential. They will likewise aid and encourange all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving people the crushing burden of armament. German spy Josef Jakobs executed by firing squad in tower of London.
19th	British liner Aquilla sunk by U boat.
20th.	5000 Jews arrested and sent to deportation camp at Drancy in France. 50,000 French people arrested in France in hunt for railway saboteurs
21st.	First Arctic convoy sails from Iceland to Russia.
28th	Three resistance members are guillotined in Paris.
29th	Germans capture Tallin which has been totally destroyed by Russian scorched earth policy.
31st	Finns push Russians back to the old border.
	British and Commonwealth War Time Prime Ministers. General Smutts, South Africa. Mr Mackenzie King, Canada. Mr Churchill. United Kingdom, Mr John Curtin, Australia, Mr Peter Fraser, New Zealand

 

The purpose of these pages is to tell the story of Churchill's life - not to give a detailed account of the wars he was involved in, for that is a vast subject.

To obtain an idea of the cause and magnitude of the war, examine the monthly calendar for each year - they include many photographs.

It is important to remember that heavy censorship of news took place throughout them, and therefore knowledge of many of these events was not available until long after they happened - or until after the wars had ended.

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1940.	May	June	July	August
1940.	September	October	November	December
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1942.	January	February	March	April
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1943.	January	February	March	April
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1945.	January	February	March	April
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Explanatory notes are given against some of these dates, but to read about particular battles or political events please go to Bibliography

CHURCHILL'S SPEECHES The Full Texts from 1936 to 1946.

Short biography of President Roosevelt
Short biography of General Eisenhower
Short biography of President Truman
Short biography of Hitler
Short biography of Stalin
Short biography of Mussolini
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