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19 July — World War II: Adolf Hitler promotes 12 generals to field marshal during the 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony following the swift victory over France, and makes a peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag. Lord Halifax, British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on 22 July.
The Walt Disney Studios released the animated feature films Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), Fantasia (1940), and Bambi (1942). Although the 1940s was a decade dominated by World War II, important and noteworthy films about a wide variety of subjects were made during that era. Hollywood was instrumental in producing dozens of classic films ...
1940 ( MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
Feb 12, 2024 · 1940: Key Dates. German authorities deport approximately 1,000 German Jews from Stettin and other eastern German cities to Lublin District in the Generalgouvernement. German forces invade Norway and Denmark. German authorities seal the first major Jewish ghetto in Lodz, in District Wartheland. German forces invade the Netherlands, Belgium ...
German was the language of commerce and government in the Habsburg Empire, which encompassed a large area of Central and Eastern Europe. Until the mid-19th century it was essentially the language of townspeople throughout most of the Empire. It indicated that the speaker was a merchant, an urbanite, not his nationality.
W. 1940s in West Germany (4 C, 1 P) Germany in World War II (9 C, 35 P) World War II strategic bombing of Germany (2 C, 49 P)
La campaña contra los Países Bajos y Francia duró menos de seis semanas. Alemania atacó el Oeste el 10 de mayo de 1940. Inicialmente, los comandantes británicos y franceses habían pensado que las fuerzas alemanas atacarían a través del centro de Bélgica como lo habían hecho en la Primera Guerra Mundial y enviaron fuerzas rápidamente a la frontera franco-belga para detener el ataque ...
