Spring Crisis 1941
 Bulgaria - German threat to Greece and Turkey, ILN 1941/03/08
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 Hess flew to England May 10, from ILN 1941/05/17
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 Churchill stands in House of Commons after May 10 bombing, from ILN 1941/05/17
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Apr. 6 - Yugoslavia, Greece invaded
May 20 - airborne attack on Crete
- Brit defeated despite Enigma warning
May 20 - Neutral Egyptian liner Zam-Zam sunk in S. Atlantic
- 140 U.S. aboard but none killed
May 26 - German battleship Bismarck located off Brazil
- by U.S.-built PBY seaplane with U.S. pilot
May 27 - FDR speech declared "unlimited national emergency"
- used false documents of presumed Nazi plan to conquer world
- urged shipbuilding program to replace growing losses
June 5 - secret transfer of 4000 Marines to Iceland
June 6 - FDR seized 80 foreign merchant ships in U.S. ports for lend-lease convoys
June 10 - FDR announced the recovery of the lifeboats of the U.S. freighter "Robin Moor" sunk May 21, and freezes Axis assets in the U.S.
June 14 - FDR froze Axis funds in U.S.
June 16 - FDR ordered German consulates closed, expelled diplomats
June 20 - battleship USS Texas evaded German subs
June 21 - Hitler ordered German subs to not attack U.S. warships
June 22 - Operation Barbarossa began
- 146 German divisions invaded Russia
June 24 - FDR extended Lend-Lease aid to Stalin
- did not invoke Neutrality act
- released $39m in frozen assets
- sent Harry Hopkins to Moscow to meet Stalin
June 30 - Hearst newsreel "Uncle Sam's Biggest Roundup of Spies."
Battle of Russia from Why We Fight
Rise of Stalin includes maps