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1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and the 940th year of the 2nd millennium. It was marked by the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, the Altmark Incident, the execution of Vsevolod Meyerhold, and the proclamation of the 14th Dalai Lama.
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- 1940. The first year of the 1940s was filled with war-related news. In 1940 or late 1939, the Nazis began "Operation T4," the first mass killings of Germans and Austrians with disabilities, most by large-scale poison gas operations.
- 1941. By far the biggest event for Americans in 1941 was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a day that would indeed, as FDR said, live in infamy.
- 1942. In 1942, World War II continued to dominate the news. February 19: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order commanding the relocation of Japanese Americans families from their homes and businesses to internment camps.
- 1943. April 13: The Germans announced that they had discovered 4,400 bodies of Polish officers in a mass grave in Russia's Katyn Forest, the first concrete evidence of the Katyn Massacre of May 1940.
June 17 – WWII: Assets of all foreign nationals from France and Monaco are frozen. [1] June 22 – The first Dairy Queen opens in Edina, Minnesota. June 24 – U.S. politics: The Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president.
The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as " the '40s " or " the Forties ") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.
Learn about the key events, inventions and popular culture of 1940, a year marked by World War II, the Dunkirk evacuation, the Blitz and the first peacetime draft in the US. Find out more details and timelines for each event on the web page.
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