1941

Events

 * Germany is reported to be getting ready to invade England.
 * Philip Murray is the leader of the CIO, a powerful industrial union, in the United States of America.  runs an article on his union in their January 27th edition.
 * Lord Halifax becomes the British ambassador to the United States of America. On February 10th,  magazine runs an article on him as the new ambassador to America.
 * With Adolf Hitler's Germany in the offensive, Franklin D. Roosevelt presses for more American aid for Great Britain in the United States Congress.
 * The Battle of Britain ends.
 * June 25 – Joe DiMaggio, a New York Yankees baseball player, plays the 37th game of his hitting streak in a match-up with the St. Louis Cardinals. His streak eventually reaches 56 games. On his 57th game, DiMaggio is defeated by two journeyman s from the Cleveland Indians.
 * December 7 – Naval Air forces of the Japanese Empire attack the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor. The event results in the entry of the United States into World War II.


 * In an alternate timeline where Edith Keeler had founded a pacifist movement in the late 1930s, America did not enter the war in 1941 either as a result of Japan not attacking or that the peace movement convinced the American government to overlook the attack. As a result, America was delayed in entering World War II which allowed Nazi Germany time to develop nuclear weapons and achieve victory in the conflict.


 * The computer simulation of Dixon Hill is set in this year.
 * Dixon Hill in The Long Dark Tunnel, by, was published this year in New York and London.

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