• 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1940. 1940 (MCMXL) was...
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    The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign...
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    The 1940 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the...
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    The 1940 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of...
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  • The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. The top ten 1940 released...
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    World War II (category Conflicts in 1940)
    Eastern Europe. In 1940, the Soviets annexed the Baltic states and parts of Finland and Romania. After the fall of France in June 1940, the war continued...
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    The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad, was a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held...
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    Winston Spencer Churchill (10 October 1940 – 2 March 2010), generally known as Winston Churchill, was an English Conservative politician and a grandson...
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  • Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and...
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  • 1940 Olympics refers to both: The 1940 Winter Olympics, which were originally to be held in Sapporo, Japan before being relocated to Garmisch-Partenkirchen...
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  • The 1940 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (第五回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Dai Go-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai) and as Sapporo 1940 (札幌1940)...
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  • 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in January 1940: In the Winter...
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  • Latvia in 1940 Occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany (1941–1945) Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944 Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (21 July 1940 – 21...
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  • 1940 An Angel from Texas May 4, 1940 Tear Gas Squad May 11, 1940 Saturday's Children May 18, 1940 Flight Angels May 25, 1940 Torrid Zone June 1, 1940...
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    Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican businessman...
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    African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers. It included...
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    in 1932 and 58% higher in 1940 on the eve of war. That is, the economy grew 58% from 1932 to 1940, and then grew 56% from 1940 to 1945 in five years of...
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    The ranks and rank insignia of the Red Army and Red Navy between 1940 and 1943 were characterised by continuing reforms to the Soviet armed forces in the...
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  • The 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya was an autonomous revolt against the Soviet authorities in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic...
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    Germaniawerft, of Kiel as yard number 601. She was commissioned on 14 September 1940, with Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in command. Lehmann-Willenbrock...
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    Purple Coat (1937) Le Rêve de 1940 (the dream of 1940) (1940) La Blouse Roumaine (1940) Interior with an Etruscan Vase (1940), Cleveland Museum of Art Le...
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    The 1940 Canadian federal election was held March 26, 1940, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 19th Parliament of Canada. Prime...
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  • documentation, in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams — The Early Years, 1903-1940 (NY: Little, Brown, 2009), 39. ISBN 9780316091565 "Road to Zanzibar". Variety...
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    Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the...
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  • The Campaign for North Africa (CNA), subtitled "The Desert War, 1940–43", is a strategic board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI)...
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  • covered is World War II from 1940 to 1945, starting at part way through of the Battle of Britain which started on 10 July 1940 to near end of the war and...
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    established). For the first two years, the majority of inmates were Polish. In May 1940, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries established the camp's...
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    Jullian) and is 1.7km in length. The Tour Montparnasse and place du 18 juin 1940 are located along it. During the 1930s, when American writer Henry Miller...
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    Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first...
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    The history of Estonia from 1918 to 1940 spanned the interwar period from the end of the Estonian War of Independence until the outbreak of World War II...
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