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    1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1939. 1939 (MCMXXXIX)...
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  • The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which...
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    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...
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    World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers...
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    1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving...
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  • list of the early pre-war films produced in the Philippines from 1912 to 1939. For an A-Z see Category:Philippine films "Pelikula, Atbp.: Pre-War Filipino...
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  • Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory is a history book about World War II in Europe, written by the English historian Norman Davies and first published...
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  • 1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1939: Prohibition went...
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    boulevards, Warsaw was bombed and besieged at the start of World War II in 1939. Much of the historic city was destroyed and its diverse population decimated...
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  • Release date Title Notes January 6, 1939 Disbarred January 14, 1939 Zaza January 20, 1939 Ambush January 27, 1939 Paris Honeymoon Boy Trouble Followed...
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    The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy...
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  • 1939 Devil's Island January 14, 1939 King of the Underworld January 21, 1939 Off the Record January 28, 1939 They Made Me a Criminal February 4, 1939...
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    1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I. The Second Republic ceased to exist in 1939, after Poland was invaded...
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  • two ships were laid down before the Second World War began in September 1939 and a third was ordered during the war, but their construction was suspended...
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    Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half...
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    propaganda, it was also intended to prevent dissident and anti-state behavior. By 1939, it had become the world's largest tourism operator. KdF was composed of...
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    Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval...
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    The 1939–1940 New York World's Fair was a world's fair at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. The fair included exhibitions...
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    Guerre 1939–1945 (English: War Cross 1939–1945) is a French military decoration, a version of the Croix de Guerre created on 26 September 1939 to honour...
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    The 1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet, a German scientific expedition, took place in Tibet between April 1938 and August 1939 under the leadership...
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    non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, launching World War II in Europe. In alliance with Italy and other Axis...
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  • Vladimír Weiss (21 September 1939 – 23 April 2018) was a Czechoslovak football defender and coach. He won the Olympic silver medal for Czechoslovakia at...
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    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...
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  • Pictures from 1922, the year the company produced its first feature, until 1939. During these years Columbia emerged from Poverty Row to become one of the...
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    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O....
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  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1939 romantic drama film starring Robert Donat, Greer Garson and directed by Sam Wood. Based on the 1934 novella of the same name...
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  • German Army Handbook 1939–1945, by W. J. K. Davies, is a small book covering the organization, equipment, and doctrine of the German Heer (and incidentally...
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    breakup of the Second Czechoslovak Republic, Carpatho-Ukraine on 15 March 1939 proclaimed itself an independent republic, headed by President Avgustyn Voloshyn...
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    a single-party regime under the FET y de las JONS. The end of the war in 1939 brought the extension of the Franco rule to the whole country and the exile...
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    cheerfulness and sophisticated charm. America was launched on 31 August 1939 and was sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of then-president of the United...
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