World War II - The Axis expanded
Time: Nov, 1940
Place: Germany
Details: The Axis expanded in November 1940 when Hungary, Slovakia and Romania joined. Romania and Hungary would make major contributions to the Axis war against the Soviet Union, in Romania's case partially to recapture territory ceded to the Soviet Union.
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World War II-German declaration of war against the United States
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Joseph Goebbels-Most of Hitler's inner circle to leave Berlin
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Sunday Jan 21, 1945 - Germany
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Friday Apr 27, 1945 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels decreed that 20 per cent of the films should be propaganda and 80 per cent light entertainment
1942 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Vice-Admiral Voss saw Goebbels for the last time
Tuesday May 1, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
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Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels were distributed Free radios
Saturday Oct 29, 1938 - Berlin, Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels and his wife discussed suicide
Saturday Jan 27, 1945 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels gained control of radio stations nationwide
Jul, 1934 - Berlin, Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels converted the 1 May holiday from a celebration of workers' rights into a day celebrating the NSDAP
Monday May 1, 1933 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels proclaimed it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations
Saturday Sep 2, 1939 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels organized Potsdam celebration
Tuesday Mar 21, 1933 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler-Last trip from the Führerbunker
Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler-Marriage
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
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Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
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Tuesday Oct 10, 1933 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Fall of Berlin
Monday Apr 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler-1940 Field Marshal Ceremony
Friday Jul 19, 1940 - Berlin, Germany
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Martin Bormann-The Machtergreifung (NSDAP Seizure of Power)
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The Holocaust-Stab-in-the-back myth
1918 - Germany
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November 1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt-U.S. Presidential election 1940
Tuesday Nov 5, 1940 - U.S.
World War II-Battle of Taranto
Monday Nov 11, 1940 - Taranto, Italy
Qaboos bin Said al Said-Birth
Monday Nov 18, 1940 - Salalah, Dhofar, Oman
World War II-Final offer
Wednesday Nov 20, 1940 - Japan
World War II-Soviet Union would join the Tripartite Pact
Nov, 1940 - U.S.S.R (Present Day Russia)
1940
Second Sino-Japanese War-China's first Large-Scale Counter-offensive
1940 - China
John F. Kennedy-Graduated
1940 - Cambridge, Massachusrtts, U.S.
Albert Einstein-American Citizen
1940 - U.S.
Ho Chi Minh-He began regularly using the name Hồ Chí Minh
1940 - China
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Schindler Interest
1940 - Kraków, Poland
John Maynard Keynes-How to Pay for the War
1940 - England
Juan Trippe-The president of The Maidstone Club
1940 - East Hampton, New York, U.S.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip graduated from Dartmouth
1940 - Dartmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle took on ministerial responsibilities
1940 - France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle had advocated would be a German war
1940 - France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle proposed to be appointed Secretary-General of the War Council
1940 - France
The Holocaust-Gas vans equipped with gas cylinders had been used to kill the handicapped in occupied Poland
Jan, 1940 - Poland
Edward VIII-German ambassador in The Hague
Jan, 1940 - The Hague, Netherlands
Audrey Hepburn-Star Puple
1940 - Arnhem, Netherlands
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip served in the British forces
1940 - United Kingdom
Marcus Garvey-Garvey suffered a stroke which left him largely paralyzed
Jan, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Frank Sinatra-1st Appearance with The New Band
Friday Jan 26, 1940 - The Coronado Theatre in Rockford, Illinois, U.S.
Ronald Reagan-Marriage
Friday Jan 26, 1940 - Glendale, California, U.S.
Donald Trump-Anti-German sentiment
1940 - U.S.
World War II-Greco-Italian War
Sunday Jan 28, 1940 - Greece
Carlos Slim-Birth
Sunday Jan 28, 1940 - Mexico City, Mexico
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip spent four months on the battleship HMS Ramillies
Jan, 1940 - United Kingdom
World War II-Operation Sonnenblaume
Tuesday Feb 6, 1940 - Cyrenaica, Libya
Winston Churchill-Churchill personally ordered Captain Philip Vian of the destroyer HMS Cossack to board the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian waters
Friday Feb 16, 1940 - Norwegian waters
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle had been earmarked for command of an armored division
Feb, 1940 - France
Igor Stravinsky-2nd Marriage
Saturday Mar 9, 1940 - Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.
St. Patrick's Day-Holy week concurrence
Sunday Mar 17, 1940 - Ireland
Alan Turing-Installing the first Bombe
Monday Mar 18, 1940 - Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-Reynaud demanded that France be released from the agreement which he had made with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Mar, 1940 - France
Nancy Pelosi-Birth
Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 - Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DC Comics-DC's first logo appeared
Apr, 1940 - U.S.
Penicillin-Progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin
1940 - Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Penicillin-Howard Florey and his team showed that penicillin effectively cured bacterial infection in mice
1940 - University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Winston Churchill-Operation Wilfred
Saturday Apr 6, 1940 - Norway
World War II-Operation Wilfred
Monday Apr 8, 1940 - Norway
World War II-Norwegian campaign
Monday Apr 8, 1940 - Norway
Adolf Hitler-German forces invaded Denmark and Norway
Tuesday Apr 9, 1940 - Denmark and Norway
The Holocaust-Germany invaded Norway and Denmark
Tuesday Apr 9, 1940 - Norway and Denmark
World War II-Operation Weserübung
Tuesday Apr 9, 1940 - Denmark and Norway
Harald V-Escaping To Sweden
Wednesday Apr 10, 1940 - Sweden
Harald V-Moving To Prince Carl Bernadotte's Home
Tuesday Apr 16, 1940 - Frötuna, Sweden
Harald V-Moving to Drottningholm
Friday Apr 26, 1940 - Drottningholm, Stockholm, Sweden
World War II-The Norway Debate
Tuesday May 7, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Winston Churchill-Norway Debate
Tuesday May 7, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Winston Churchill-Churchill had won the doubters over and his successor as party leader was a formality
Thursday May 9, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler-Germany attacked France
Friday May 10, 1940 - France
World War II-Neville Chamberlain resignation
Friday May 10, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
World War II-Churchill in the office
Friday May 10, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-The Germans attacked
May, 1940 - Germany
World War II-Fall of France
Friday May 10, 1940 - France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
The Holocaust-Alexander von Falkenhausen enacted anti-Jewish measures
May, 1940 - Germany
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle activated his new division
Sunday May 12, 1940 - France
Winston Churchill-"blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech
Monday May 13, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Edward VIII-Germany invaded the north of France
May, 1940 - France
Audrey Hepburn-"Edda van Heemstra"
1940 - Netherlands
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle was given command of the 4th Armoured Division
Wednesday May 15, 1940 - France
Charles de Gaulle-The Germans broke through at Sedan
Wednesday May 15, 1940 - France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle was reinforced by two fresh regiments
Saturday May 18, 1940 - France
World War II-Germany invaded Greece
May, 1940 - Greece
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle attacked again and his forces were once again devastated
Sunday May 19, 1940 - Montcornet, France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle delayed his retreat
Monday May 20, 1940 - Montcornet, France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle gave a talk on French radio
Tuesday May 21, 1940 - Montcornet, France
Queen Elizabeth II-Elizabeth lived at Royal Lodge
May, 1940 - Windsor, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle was promoted to the rank of temporary
Thursday May 23, 1940 - France
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels used Polish officers accident "Katyn massacre"
May, 1940 - Katyn, Russia (Then U.S.S.R.)
Winston Churchill-British Expeditionary Force in retreat to Dunkirk
May, 1940 - Dunkirk, France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle attacked the German bridgehead south of the Somme at Abbeville
May, 1940 - Abbeville, France
Winston Churchill-Churchill ordered the formation of both the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Commandos
Jun, 1940 - England, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle's rank of brigadier-general
Saturday Jun 1, 1940 - France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle sent a memo to Weygand
Sunday Jun 2, 1940 - Paris, France
Winston Churchill-Operation Dynamo
Tuesday Jun 4, 1940 - Dunkirk, France
Samuel Little -Little Birth
Friday Jun 7, 1940 - Reynolds, Georgia, U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle suggested fighting on
Saturday Jun 8, 1940 - France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle flew to London and met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Sunday Jun 9, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler-Italy join forces with Hitler
Monday Jun 10, 1940 - Italy
Marcus Garvey-Death
Monday Jun 10, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini-Italy declared war on Britain and France
Monday Jun 10, 1940 - Italy
World War II-Battle of Alps
Monday Jun 10, 1940 - Italian-French Boarders
World War II-Siege of Malta
Tuesday Jun 11, 1940 - Malta
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle offered General Hunziger as Commander-in-Chief
Tuesday Jun 11, 1940 - France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle attended the meeting of the Anglo-French Supreme War Council at the Chateau
Tuesday Jun 11, 1940 - France
Winston Churchill-Western Desert campaign
Tuesday Jun 11, 1940 - Egypt and Libya
The Holocaust-Norway was completely occupied
Jun, 1940 - Norway
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle attended another Anglo-French
Thursday Jun 13, 1940 - France
Francisco Franco-Occupied Tangier
Friday Jun 14, 1940 - Tangier, Morocco
Eiffel Tower-The tower was closed to the public during the occupation and the lifts were not repaired
Jun, 1940 - Paris, France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle arrived at Bordeaux
Friday Jun 14, 1940 - Bordeaux, France
World War II-Surrender of Paris
Friday Jun 14, 1940 - Paris, France
Charles de Gaulle-Reynaud had resigned as prime minister
Jun, 1940 - Bordeaux, France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle talked about Jean Monnet's mooted Anglo-French political union
Sunday Jun 16, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle escaped to London
Monday Jun 17, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-British Cabinet was reluctant to agree to de Gaulle giving a radio address
Tuesday Jun 18, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle's Appeal to continue to resist the occupation of France
Tuesday Jun 18, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Francisco Franco-Wanted to enter the war
Wednesday Jun 19, 1940 - Cameroon
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle denied the legitimacy of the government at Bordeaux
Wednesday Jun 19, 1940 - London
Salvador Dali-Able to Escape
Thursday Jun 20, 1940 - U.S.
W. E. B. Du Bois-Dusk of Dawn
1940 - U.S.
Richard Nixon-Marriage
Jun, 1940 - Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, California, U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-Armistice was signed
Friday Jun 21, 1940 - Compiègne, France
Adolf Hitler-France armistice
Saturday Jun 22, 1940 - Compiègne, France