{"id":929,"date":"2012-12-01T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/?p=929"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:13:39","slug":"montana-history-calendar-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/montana-history-calendar-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana History Calendar 1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>1941<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 April 6 \u2013 German troops invaded Greece and Yugoslavia.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 April 13 \u2013 Japan and Russia signed a non-aggression pact.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 April 17 \u2013 Yugoslavia surrendered to the Axis and Marshall Tito began to organize guerrilla forces.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 June 22 \u2013 Germany invaded the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 July 13 \u2013 England and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid agreement.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 August 25 \u2013 British and Soviet troops occupied Iran.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 October \u2013 German forces threatened the outskirts of Moscow and Leningrad.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 November 17 \u2013 Admiral Yamamoto and elements of the Combined Fleet steamed out of Saeki Bay, Japan.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 November 29 \u2013 Governor Ford told a convention of Native American leaders in Havre that their treatment by the Federal government had been &#8220;shameful.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 December 3 \u2013 Sen. Burton K. Wheeler leaked the top-secret &#8220;Victory Program&#8221; to a newspaper reporter.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 December 4 \u2013 The Japanese fleet changed course towards Pearl Harbor.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 December 6 \u2013 The British declared war on Finland, Hungary, and Rumania.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 December 8 &#8211; Montana Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin cast the only dissenting vote on a declaration of war.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 December 11 &#8211; Germany &amp; Italy declared war on the U.S.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 December 12 &#8211; The sound of a train collision in Great Falls was mistaken for an air raid.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 December 13 &#8211; A Soviet offensive at Moscow caused 85,000 German casualties. British forces in North Africa attacked Germans west of Tobruk.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 Dec. 15 &#8211; President Roosevelt addressed the nation on the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2022 Dec. 18 &#8211; The first Japanese detainees arrived at Fort Missoula.<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Montana History Calendar 1942\" href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/montana-history-calendar-1942-in-montana\/\">Montana History Calendar 1942<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Montana\u2019s Home Front During World War II, 2nd ed.\" href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/my-books\/montanas-home-front-during-world-war-ii-2nd-ed\/\">Read More about this period<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1941 \u2022 April 6 \u2013 German troops invaded Greece and Yugoslavia. \u2022 April 13 \u2013 Japan and Russia signed a non-aggression pact. \u2022 April 17 \u2013 Yugoslavia surrendered to the Axis and Marshall Tito began to organize guerrilla forces. \u2022 June 22 \u2013 Germany invaded the Soviet Union. \u2022 July 13 \u2013 England and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/montana-history-calendar-1941\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Montana History Calendar 1941<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}