OPERATION “CRUSADER”

18 NOVEMBER 1941 —21 JANUARY1942 20 NOVEMBER 1941 Japan delivers a warning to the USA demanding non-interference in China. 1 DECEMBER 1941 Japanese leaders endorse decision to start war against the USA. 5 DECEMBER 1941 Soviet forces under General Zhukov launch counter-offensive at Moscow. 22 DECEMBER 1941 “Arcadia” Conference begins in Washington where US and Britain agree that defeat of Germany in the priority. The failure to dislodge Rommel’s Afrika Korps from the Egyptian frontier in the summer of 1941 led to one of the few periods of static warfare in the Desert War. Rommel and his Italian allies created a defensive line around the towns of Sollum and Bardia, while the newly-appointed General Auchinleck refused to bend to pressure to attack the Axis until he could be certain of…

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