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...

Marshal August 1939 4 August The Four Feathers 6 August Cheer Boys Cheer 10 August The Wizard of Oz 11 August Lady of the Tropics 18 August In Name Only...

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

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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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

(First) Slovak Republic (Slovak: (Prvá) Slovenská republika), until 21 July 1939 known as the Slovak State (Slovak: Slovenský štát), was a partially-recognized...

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

commanders at his Obersalzberg home on 22 August 1939, a week before the German invasion of Poland. In August 1939, American journalist Louis P. Lochner contacted...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

France It includes an eyewitness description of the Battle of Lwów. In August 1939, Leixner had joined the Wehrmacht as a war reporter and was later promoted...

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...

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...

back to the 1920s and in the latter the project must have started between 1939-1945. After the surrender of Nazi Germany several of the secret or unfinished...

Franz Xaver Ziereis (13 August 1905 – 24 May 1945) was the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1939 until the camp was liberated by the...