• 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in June 1940: The Actions in...
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    Armistice of 22 June 1940, sometimes referred to as the Second Armistice at Compiègne, was an agreement signed at 18:36 on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in June 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1940. For the scuttling of HMS Mashobra on...
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    The Appeal of 18 June (French: L'Appel du 18 juin) was the first speech made by Charles de Gaulle after his arrival in London in 1940 following the Battle...
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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 Norwegian campaign (8 April  – 10 June 1940) involved the attempt by Allied forces to defend northern Norway coupled with the resistance of the Norwegian...
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  • Research Office estimated total German military dead at 50,000 in May and June 1940. 32 Italian divisions attacked France in the Alps region defended by 6...
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    The 1940 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic...
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    Marshal Philippe Pétain as the successor to the French Third Republic in June 1940. The government remained in Vichy for four years, but fled to Germany...
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  • The Norwegian Campaign, lasting from 9 April to 10 June 1940, led to the first direct land confrontation between the military forces of the Allies—the...
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    Between 28 June and 3 July 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that threatened...
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  • From 1939 to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The...
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    North 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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    World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre. From June 1940 to November 1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important...
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  • 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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    cars. On 3 June 1940 all Soviet military forces based in Baltic states were concentrated under the command of Aleksandr Loktionov. On 9 June the directive...
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    Reynaud was Prime Minister during the German defeat of France in May and June 1940; he persistently refused to support an armistice with Germany and unsuccessfully...
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  • Post-Dispatch. 23 May 1940. p. 23. Retrieved 26 July 2023. "Camera overseas: Stanley Baldwin becomes the earl of Bewdley". Life. 21 June 1937. p. 70. Retrieved...
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    office since June 1929) as First Lord of the Admiralty. Dissatisfaction with Chamberlain's leadership became widespread in the spring of 1940 after Germany...
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    9 April 1940, during the Second World War. The attack was a prelude to the invasion of Norway (German: Weserübung Nord, 9 April – 10 June 1940). Denmark's...
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    battleship and badly damaging two others during the Battle of Taranto in late 1940. Two months later the carrier was crippled by German dive bombers and was...
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    World War II. It was created by the Armistice of 22 June 1940 after the fall of France in May 1940. The path of the demarcation line was specified in the...
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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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  • of Abyssinia 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941 World War II 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941...
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    remains. U-48 took part in two wolfpacks, namely: Rösing (12 – 15 June 1940) West (2 – 8 June 1941) Battle of the Atlantic Merchant ship tonnages are in gross...
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    East African campaign (World War II) (category Conflicts in 1940)
    Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the...
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  • Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook...
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    Islands by Nazi Germany lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945. The Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick...
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    launched on 9 June 1940. After just over two years of fitting-out, the new battleship was commissioned into the Regia Marina on 14 June 1942. She arrived...
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    "non-belligerence" after the Fall of France in June 1940. Franco wrote to Adolf Hitler offering to join the war on 19 June 1940 in exchange for help building Spain's...
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