Battle of Crete
1941 · Event
First mainly airborne invasion in history; Germans took Crete at heavy paratrooper losses.
On these timelines: Master, World War II
Around 1941
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)