Jan 9, 1941: Thai forces invade French Indochina, vowing to take back border areas that it claims to have possessed historically

Jan 10, 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces Lend Lease agreement to Congress, aiming to enable the United States to supply Britain and other nations such as China with weapons and other materiel to fight the Axis powers

Jan 11, 1941: Chinese newspaper Takung Pao, using fancy calculation methods, says US Navy is ‘322 times more powerful’ than its Japanese counterpart.

Jan 12, 1941: The Red Cross Society plans to step up its activities in war-torn China

Jan 13, 1941: Japanese Prime Minister Konoye Fumimaro meets with military leaders amid concern over growing ‘delicacy’ of relations with the United States

Jan 14, 1941: Japanese passenger liner Montevideo Maru arrives in Brazil, carrying an assorted number of refugees as well as 350 Japanese farmers planning to emigrate to South America to escape population pressure at home

Jan 15, 1941: Japan deploys hundreds of bombers in the occupied Chinese cities of Wuhan and Wuhu as it plans to step up raids on Chinese wartime capital of Chongqing