His reputation grew in the USA following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by Frank Lloyd Wright as a " work of genius ".

Image: 1930s gas mask. jpg | Finnish civilian gas mask from 1939.

On 30 November 1939, after a futile year-and-a-half campaign to persuade the Finnish government to cede territory to the Soviet Union and give up some sovereignty by conceding specific military and political favors, the Soviet Union launched an offensive against Finland, starting what came to be known as the Winter War.

The original design of the Molotov cocktail produced by the Finnish alcohol monopoly Alko during the Winter War of 1939 – 40.

* 1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.

Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä named the main belt asteroid 1740 Paavo Nurmi after Nurmi in 1939, while Finnair named its first DC-8 Paavo Nurmi in 1969.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

* Finnish Democratic Republic ( 1939 – 1940 )-The Finnish Democratic Republic ( Suomen Kansanvaltainen Tasavalta ) was a short-lived Soviet puppet regime in those minor parts of Finland that were occupied by the Soviet Union during the Winter War.

In 1939, the Soviet Union unsuccessfully attempted an invasion of Finland, subsequent to which the parties entered into an interim peace treaty granting the Soviet Union the eastern region of Karelia ( 10 % of Finnish territory ), and the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was established by merging the ceded territories with the KASSR.

Edvard Alexander Westermarck ( 20 November 1862 – 3 September 1939 ) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist.

The Finnish army fought defensively in battles during December 1939 and January 1940.

Lauri Törni as Waffen-SS | SS-Untersturmführer. In the fall of 1939, Lauri Törni was completing his enlistment in the Finnish Army when the Soviet Union attacked Finland.

Finnish Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union by Finland following the Winter War ( 1939 – 1940 ) and Continuation War ( 1941 – 1944 ).

In 1928 – 1939 parts of the isthmus which belonged to Russia constituted the Kuivaisi National District with its center in Toksova, with Finnish as the official language, according to the policy of national delimitation in the Soviet Union.

Finland initially regained the lost territory, reaching the Russian side of the border of 1939 and seen by the Russians as indirectly contributing to the Siege of Leningrad ( see Finnish reconquest of the Karelian Isthmus ( 1941 )).

However, these experiences proved of little use in the Winter war against Finland in 1939, where scores of inexperienced Soviet bomber and fighter pilots were shot down by a relatively small number of Finnish Air Force ( FAF ) pilots.

The Finnish Army consisted of 9 field divisions, 4 brigades and a number of small independent battalions and companies at the beginning of the Winter War in 1939.

The Winter War began on November 30, 1939, when the Soviet Air Force bombed 21 Finnish cities and municipalities.

The Soviet Union is estimated to have had about 5, 000 aircraft in 1939, and of these, some 700 fighters and 800 medium bombers were brought to the Finnish front to support the Red Army's operations.

When the Soviet invasion started the Winter War on 30 November 1939, Oesch continued as the Chief of the General Staff in the Finnish Supreme HQ under Mannerheim.

In 1939, during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, the Finnish armoured forces consisted of around thirty-two obsolete Renault FT-17 tanks, some Vickers-Carden-Lloyd Mk.

The copy of Magna Carta belonging to Lincoln Cathedral also left Britain in 1939 for the first time to be in the British Pavilion at the fair.

Maurice Ascalon's " The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil " copper relief sculpture adorned the facade of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair.

The only major world power that did not participate for the 1939 season was Germany, citing budget pressures ; the Soviet Pavilion was dismantled after the first season, leaving an empty lot called " The American Commons ".

In addition, the building has served as a symbol of Pennsylvania, and was the basis for the Pennsylvania Pavilion of the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 in Norfolk, Virginia, and the since-demolished Pennsylvania Pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Fulton completed his education in 1939 deciding to enter the world of acting, after a backstage visit at the Glasgow Pavilion Theatre.

* 1939 – The 1939 World's Fair in New York includes the Finnish Pavilion by Alvar Aalto and the Brazilian Pavilion by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer.

was proclaimed the state song by Governor of Vermont George Aiken to be performed in the Vermont Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Important work in the 1930s included a diorama for the Swiss Pavilion at the Paris International world fair in 1937, and set designs, murals and the official posters for the " Landi ", the Swiss national exposition held in Zurich in 1939.

* Pennsylvania Pavilion, 1939 New York World's Fair, 1939

For the 1939 World ’ s Fair, city agencies were invited to produce exhibits for the New York City Pavilion ( now the Queens Museum of Art ).

They were commissioned for the Irish Government's Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

* AT & T Pavilion, General Electric Pavilion, Borden Pavilion, Petroleum Pavilion, New York World's Fair ( 1939 )

People from the United States first became acquainted with Kingman's art in 1939, when he assisted Camilo Egas with the paintings and decorations for the Ecuadorian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair.

This project, the Schwartz house was the beginning of a collaboration with Costa which was enriched later by Oscar Niemeyer who designed the Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World ’ s Fair in 1939.

The 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939.

The ABC was built by Dr. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College during 1939 – 42.

* 1939 – 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer.

* 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.

* 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.

Since the first pioneering efforts of Florey and Chain in 1939, the importance of antibiotics, including antibacterials, to medicine has led to intense research into producing antibacterials at large scales.

The highest maximum temperature recorded in the ACT was 42. 8 ° C ( 109. 0 ° F ) at Acton on 11 January 1939.

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

* A GAME OF BOWLS ( 1939 ) ( archive film of a bowling match at the Whitevale and Kingswood Bowling Clubs, Glasgow-from the National Library of Scotland: SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE )

But in 1939, Robert Oppenheimer and others predicted that neutron stars above approximately three solar masses ( the Tolman – Oppenheimer – Volkoff limit ) would collapse into black holes for the reasons presented by Chandrasekhar, and concluded that no law of physics was likely to intervene and stop at least some stars from collapsing to black holes.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

In fact Hitler intended to start an unlimited war, at a much later date than 1939.

A third paper, The Magic Comic, aimed at a slightly younger audience, followed in July 1939, but ceased publication in early 1941, due to paper rationing.

Gold, silver and garnet grave goods from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo ( 1939 ) and late Roman silver tableware from Mildenhall, Suffolk ( 1946 ).

* Bloody Sunday ( 1939 ), aka Bromberg Bloody Sunday, a massacre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II

From 1938 to 1945, he held a succession of positions, first becoming senior history master at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon in 1938 ( and also a Captain in the school's OTC ), then instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1939.

On a day in 1939, Sprinz had a blimp hover overhead at 800 feet, from which were to be dropped balls for him to catch.

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.

While most armies still maintained cavalry units at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, significant mounted action was largely restricted to the Polish, Balkan and Soviet campaigns.

From 1935 to 1940 he lectured at the University of Rochester and wrote The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child ( 1939 ), based on his experience in working with troubled children.