How the first Vietnam war began part one of six
(Thursday, July 24, 1941) — Japanese warships were reported off the coast of Southern French Indo-China tonight, and twelve Japanese troop transports were said to be on their way here as Japan followed up quickly French acceptance of her demands for new military concessions in the colony.
(Tuesday, May 27, 1941, 9:30 p.m. ET) — Amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt tonight proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency.” Click here to watch video of the address.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRRNkfj-mM
Destruction of the Hood from "Sink the Bismarck"(1960)
(Saturday, May 24, 1941) — The German battleship Bismarck sank the British dreadnought Hood today in the North Atlantic during the World War II Battle of the Denmark Strait.
(Monday, May 19, 1941) — The Viet Minh was formed today at Pac Bo by Ho Chi Minh to seek independence for Vietnam from the French Empire.
"The World At War: Barbarossa (June – December 1941)" (May Day in Moscow @ 7:48)
(Thursday, May 1, 1941) — Masses of truck-borne infantry and new motorized artillery were star attractions today at Soviet Russia’s traditional May Day parade in Red Square today; and Defence Commissar S. K. Timoshenko told spectators that the Red Army was mobilized against “accidents” and “the tricks of our foreign enemies.”
"The World at War - Banzai!: Japan (1931–1942)," April 13, 1941 @ 8:31
(Sunday, April 13, 1941) — Japan and the Soviet Union today signed the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact.
