1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1939: Prohibition went...

A secret speech was allegedly given by Joseph Stalin, on 19 August 1939, to members of the Politburo, wherein he justified the Soviet strategy to promote...

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of cheerfulness and sophisticated charm. America was launched on 31 August 1939 and was sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of then-president of the...

in the "secret protocol" of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed on 23 August 1939, which divided Poland into "spheres of influence" of the two powers....

The list of shipwrecks in August 1939 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1939. "Casualty Reports". The Times. No...

influence across Northern Europe. The pact was signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister...

Polish Corridor on either side of the city of Gdynia. Between March and August 1939, Poland also shared a border with the then-Hungarian governorate of Subcarpathia...

Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland...

The 1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet, a German scientific expedition, took place in Tibet between April 1938 and August 1939 under the leadership...

Palestinian Revolt, or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939. The movement sought independence from British colonial rule and the end...

demands to negotiate on August 29, 1939. It was announced on German radio that these points had been rejected on September 1, 1939, even though they were...

clerical fascist client state of Nazi Germany which existed between 14 March 1939 and 4 April 1945 in Central Europe. The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia declared...

border conflicts involving the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhin Gol, which passes through...

A two-volume work titled The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 – August 1939 was published by Oxford University Press in 1942 under auspices of the...

under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly...

The 1939 New York World's Fair took place at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States, during 1939 and 1940. The fair included...

Beau Geste is a 1939 American adventure film starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, and Susan Hayward. Directed and produced...

Wilhelmshaven on 19 August 1939 and patrolled the Western Approaches until returning to base on 18 September 1939. On 30 December 1939 Lüth took command...

Waddington, p. 58. Letter of 30 August 1939 to Harold Macmillan, cited in Macmillan, Harold (1966), Winds of Change 1914–1939, London: Macmillan, p. 604 Waddington...

Austria in March of 1938 and injured his standing with Hitler. In September 1939, Reichenau commanded the 10th Army during the German invasion of Poland and...

and was often consulted by ministers and civil servants for advice. In August 1939, he advised Neville Chamberlain about the formation of a new War Cabinet...

ISBN 978-1-315-13539-7. "Blamed on I. R. A.: Coventry Bomb". The News. 26 August 1939. Retrieved 15 June 2023. Ward, Steven R. (2009). Immortal: A Military...

Jean Bugatti (né Gianoberto Maria Carlo Bugatti; 15 January 1909 – 11 August 1939) was an automotive designer and test engineer for Bugatti. He was the...

Germany and now Gliwice, Poland) staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939. Along with some two dozen similar incidents, the attack was manufactured...

The Last Game, as it is known in Poland, was played on Sunday, 27 August 1939, at the Stadion Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw. It was the last game of the...

1936. She was launched on St Patrick's Day 1938. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Belfast was initially...

instead offered Stalin a better deal in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939. An alliance formed by Germany, Italy, and Japan led to the establishment...

nominally assigned as commander of the 44th Division from October 1938 to August 1939 after the Anschluss. He was chosen by Hitler to be Chief of the Operations...