In August 1939, after Stalin's attempts to establish an Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance failed, Stalin entered into a pact with Nazi Germany that divided their influence in Eastern Europe and allowed the USSR to regain some of its lost territories.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Germany and the Soviet Union entered an intricate trade pact on February 11, 1940, that was over four times larger than the one the two countries had signed in August 1939.

Butler was jailed from 1937 to 1939, but was re-arrested when the United Kingdom entered World War II and jailed for the duration of the war.

In 1936 he entered the graphics ' division of Olivetti, then one of the most important industrial firms in the nation, but in 1939, after Fascism issued racial laws, to protect his wife, he left Italy for France first and the U. S. A. later ( Long Island ).

It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939 but nine months before the U. S. entered the war in December 1941.

He entered the Illinois Army National Guard on October 23, 1939 as a private in Company F, 129th Infantry Regiment.

In 1939, the USSR entered into the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany that contained a secret protocol that divided Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland into German and Soviet spheres of influence.

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.

However, while the shell was a bit light ( well under 2 lbs ) it had a good effective ceiling and fired 125 rounds per minute ; an AA carriage was developed and it entered service in 1939.

On 7 September 1939 began the occupation of Poland by the German army, which entered the country coming from Slovakia.

Australia entered the Second World War on 3 September 1939 and a special War Cabinet was created after war was declared – initially composed of Prime Minister Menzies and five senior ministers including Billy Hughes.

Gold entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1939 and began studying mechanical sciences.

Cavalli-Sforza entered Ghislieri College in Pavia in 1939 and he received his M. D.

A Fiat CR. 42 in Regia Aeronautica service. The Fiat CR. 42 entered service in May 1939, with the 53 ° Stormo, based at Turin Caselle Airport.

Category: Treaties entered into force in 1939

In 1939, Seversky Aircraft again entered in a military fighter competition, this time with the much improved AP-4.

Jan Antonín Baťa stayed in the Americas from 1939 – 1940, but when America entered the war, he felt it would be safer for his co-workers and their families back in occupied Czechoslovakia if he left the United States.

Canada entered World War II in September, 1939, and some oof the team's Canadian players left for military service.

From 1935 to 1938, The Colophon entered a new phase with less lofty production values ( at a price of $ 4 per year ), before returning to a higher level of quality in 1939 with the ' New Graphic Series '.

By 1939, with Adolf Hitler in power and the Treaty of Versailles no longer in effect, Walter and Reimar had entered the Luftwaffe as pilots.

Overall, 4 million of the 1939 population of the General Government area had lost their lives by the time the Soviet armed forces had entered the area in late 1944.

Although the 9TP never entered production, these prototypes were used in the defense of Warsaw in September 1939.

It entered combat on September 4, 1939 and fought with distinction in a variety of roles, mostly as a mobile reserve and for covering the withdrawal.

In 1931-1933 a prayer house was built on the Friedrich Schiller Street but was burned down when Nazis entered the town on 1 September 1939.

* 1939 – Hércules Brito Ruas, Brazilian footballer

* 1939 – Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician

* 1939 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player

* José Ricardo da Silva ( b. 1939 ), Brazilian footballer known as China

With the start of World War II, in 1939, Vargas maintained neutrality until 1941, when an agreement, proposed by Brazilian foreign relations minister Oswaldo Aranha was formed between American continental nations to align with any American country in the event of an attack by an external power.

* Evaristo de Morais ( 1871 – 1939 ): founder of the Brazilian Socialist Party,

* 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.

Glauber de Andrade Rocha ( March 14, 1939 – August 22, 1981 ) was an influential Brazilian film director, actor and writer.

* Dudu ( footballer ) ( born 1939 ), Brazilian football player

His works include the Brazilian pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1939 ( designed with Oscar Niemeyer ), the Parque Guinle residential complex in Rio of 1948, and the Hotel do Park São Clemente in Nova Friburgo of 1948.

Edward John Carlos Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany ( born Dublin 10 September 1939 — died Navan, County Meath, 24 May 2011 ), the late 20th Baron of Dunsany, with Irish, Brazilian and UK citizenship, was the grandson of the author Lord Dunsany, and a modern artist and property owner.

A Brazilian Navy ship launches depth charges against German submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic ( 1939 – 1945 ) | Battle of the Atlantic in World War II.

In 1939, he married a fellow Christian, a nurse by profession, and the daughter of a prominent Brazilian of Fon origins from Ouidah.

From 1939 to 1941, he was assistant conductor at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro and on the faculty of the Brazilian Conservatory.

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.

Marlos Nobre ( born February 18, 1939 in Recife, Pernambuco ) is a Brazilian composer.

" Aquarela do Brasil " ( Watercolor of Brazil ), known in the English-speaking world simply as " Brazil ", is one of the most famous Brazilian songs of all time, written by Ary Barroso in 1939.

Djalma Pereira Dias Júnior ( 21 August 1939 – 1 May 1990 ) was a Brazilian footballer who played as a defender.