Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

In June 1940, during the early stages of World War II, France fell and the colony was then ruled by the pro-Axis Vichy ( French ) government.

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

Nehru was then succeeded by his socialist colleagues Bose ( 1938 – 39 ) and Azad ( 1940 – 46 ).

When the Germans threatened to overrun Paris in 1940, where she was then living, he arranged her escape to England.

Latvia's independent status was interrupted at the outset of World War II when in 1940 the country was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, then retaken by the Soviets in 1944 after Germany surrendered.

* Kamerun was split on 20 July 1922 into British Cameroons ( under a Resident ) and French Cameroun ( under a Commissioner until 27 August 1940, then under a Governor ), on 13 December 1946 transformed into United Nations Trust Territories, again a British ( successively under senior district officers officiating as Resident, a Special Resident and Commissioners ) and a French Trust ( under a Haut Commissaire )

* 1940 – The Lahore Resolution ( Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore ) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.

In 1920 the Vox-group had taken over the building and the following year commissioned its remodelling by Swiss architect Rudolf Otto Salvisberg ( 1882 – 1940 ), and then erected two transmitting antennae.

Heydrich became the President of Interpol ( then under Nazi control ) on 24 August 1940, and its headquarters were transferred to Berlin.

Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ) was to have starred Olivier and Leigh ; however, Selznick replaced Olivier with Robert Taylor, then at the peak of his success as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most popular male stars.

The Redskins then met the Bears again in the 1940 NFL Championship Game on December 8, 1940.

In this area Lipscomb originally intended a more ambitious project: " My original intention in the late 1940 ’ s was to spend a few years understanding the boranes, and then to discover a systematic valence description of the vast numbers of electron deficient intermetallic compounds.

Cleveland also became the first Democrat to be nominated by his party three consecutive times, a distinction that would be equaled only by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and then exceeded by him in 1944.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

The 1940 Games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and then for Helsinki ; the 1944 Games had been provisionally planned for London.

He then became an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Minnesota from 1940 to 1941 ( joining the American Federation of Teachers ), and was a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ).

The opera was then given a rest, returning to the touring repertory between 1894 and 1900 and again for most of the time between 1903 and 1940.

He graduated from Townsend Harris High School and then earned a Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940 in mathematics, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Dönitz told the former Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath that " It had been Raeder's fault that until the middle of 1940 only two U-boats slid down the ways " per month, and that if only he had been Navy Commander-in-Chief in 1940 then he would have won the war.

The cipher was broken by a team from the US Army Signals Intelligence Service, then directed by William Friedman in 1940.

Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O ' Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.

Health and welfare spending grew dramatically under Italian fascism, with welfare rising from 7 % of the budget in 1930 to 20 % in 1940.

When, in 1940, the Liceo was put under state control and turned into the Conservatorio Statale di Musica " Gioachino Rossini ", the corporate body to which Rossini ’ s inheritance had been conveyed, assumed the style of Fondazione G. Rossini.

In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).

* 1940: Great Britain under Winston Churchill become the last nation to hold out against the Nazis after winning the Battle of Britain

After the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir in 1940, where the British fleet destroyed a large part of the French navy, still under command of Vichy France, that killed about 1, 100 sailors, there was nationwide indignation and a feeling of distrust in the French forces, leading to the events of the Battle of Dakar.

Before the Dodd-Frank Act made registration mandatory for hedge fund advisers with more than US $ 150 million in assets under management, hedge funds were primarily regulated through their managers or advisers, under the anti-fraud provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Because of these regulatory restrictions on ownership, hedge funds have been exempted from mandatory registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which is generally intended to regulate investment funds sold to retail investors.

Because Sections 3 ( c ) 1 and 3 ( c ) 7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 prohibit hedge funds from making public offerings, funds must sell their securities in accordance with the private offering rules under the Securities Act of 1933.

This regulation is set out under Section 205 ( b ) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which limits performance fees to so-called " fulcrum fees ".

Previous exemptions from registration provided under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 will no longer apply to most hedge fund advisers.

* 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.

* 1940 – World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.

On 7 May 1940, Ribbentrop founded a new section of the Foreign Office, the Abteilung Deutschland ( Department of Internal German Affairs ), under Martin Luther, to which was assigned the responsibility for all anti-Semitic affairs.

In October 1940 – February 1942, the NKVD under Beria carried out a new purge of the Red Army and related industries.

In 1940, under the pen-name " Cato " he and two other Beaverbrook journalists ( Frank Owen, editor of the Standard, and Peter Howard of the Daily Express ) published Guilty Men, a Left Book Club book attacking the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain government that became a run-away best-seller.

In August 1940, the Soviet Union briefly suspended its deliveries under their commercial agreement after their relations were strained following disagreement over policy in Romania, the Soviet war with Finland, Germany falling behind in its deliveries of goods under the pact and with Stalin worried that Hitler's war with the West might end quickly after France signed an armistice.

Rabbani, son of Muhammed Yousuf, was born in the northern province of Badakhshan in 1940.

The Third Republic followed and after the death of his son Napoleon ( IV ), in 1879 during the Zulu War, the Bonapartist movement split, and the Third Republic was to last until 1940.

Lang was born in Vienna as the second son of Anton Lang ( 1860 – 1940 ), an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline " Paula " Lang née Schlesinger ( 1864 – 1920 ).

Retained on business in Rimini, Urbano sent wife and family to Rome in 1940 to share an apartment with his son.

* to Athole Shearer ( 1928 – 1940 ), sister of movie actress Norma Shearer, mother of his daughter Barbara Hawks and son David Hawks ;

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

After a short period of internment on the Lofoten Islands, Schwitters fled to Scotland with his son on the icebreaker Fridtjof Nansen between 8 and 18 June 1940.

Following the severe territorial losses of 1940 ( see next section ), Carol was forced to abdicate, replaced as king by his son Mihai, but the power was taken by the military dictator Ion Antonescu ( initially in conjunction with the Iron Guard ).

* 1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.

Bruce Lee ( traditional: 李小龍 ) ( born Lee Jun-fan ; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973 ) was a Hong Kongese actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, founder of Jeet Kune Do, and the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen.

With him she had one son, Robin Gaynor Adrian, born in 1940.

Another proof of this kind was obtained by Hellmuth Kneser in 1940 and simplified by his son Martin Kneser in 1981.

His youngest son, Hans-Georg Keitel, was severely wounded in the thigh during the 1940 campaign in France.

* T. H. Harris, pioneer educator and state education superintendent from 1908 to 1940, was born in the Arizona community in Claiborne Parish in 1869, the son of a Baptist minister.

When the count died in 1940, his son Bechtold Eugen Graf von Bernstorff inherited Schiermonnikoog.

" On 29 June 1940, eleven weeks after the birth of her fourth son Max, Diana was arrested ( hastily stuffing Hitler's photograph under Max's cot mattress when the police came to arrest her ) and taken to a cell in F Block in London's Holloway Prison for women.

Their son, Jan Masaryk, served as Foreign Minister in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile ( 1940 – 1945 ) and in the governments of 1945 to 1948.

Sir Evan Edward Charteris ( 1864 – 1940 ), sixth son of the tenth Earl, was a historian, biographer and barrister and notably published biographies of John Singer Sargent and of Edmund Gosse.

He was the son of Count André de Laborde de Monpezat ( Mont-de-Marsan, 6 May 1907 – Le Cayrou, 23 February 1998 ) and his wife, Renée Doursenot ( Périgueux, 26 October 1908 – Le Cayrou 11 February 2001 ), ( married religiously Cahors, 6 January 1934 and civilly Cahors 22 January 1948 ), who was previously married firstly civilly in Paris on 29 September 1928 and divorced at the Tribunal Civil Français de Saigon on 21 September 1940 Louis Leuret ( Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, 18 March 1881 – Saigon, South Vietnam, 29 December 1962 ).

In 1967, Arkin had son Anthony ( Tony ) Dana Arkin with actress-screenwriter Barbara Dana ( born 1940 ), to whom he was married from June 16, 1964 to the mid-1990s.

Profumo was born in Kensington, London, the son of Albert Profumo, 4th Baron Profumo, a diplomat and barrister of Italian origin, who died in 1940.

Lee Drinkard and the preacher's son, Mancel, were later married, and Dionne became the Drinkard family's first grandchild on December 12, 1940.

* 1976 Journal de voyage ; Lettres à son Mari, 14 janvier 1918-31 decembre 1940.

On his death in 1940, his son Jim Joel took over the operation.