* Spain, under dictator Francisco Franco, was an autarky from 1939 until Franco allowed outside trade again in 1959, coinciding with the beginning of the " Spanish miracle ".

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

In 1939 he met with Trappist monk Alexis Presse on a recommendation.

Aalto's early experiments with wood and his move away from a purist modernism would be tested in built form with the commission to design Villa Mairea ( 1939 ) in Noormarkku, the luxury home of the young industrialist couple Harry and Maire Gullichsen.

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.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

However, in 1939, an injury forced Lancaster to give up the profession, with great regret.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

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.

However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids the Parthenon Sculptures along with Museum's most valued collections were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych tube station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry.

The main legislative framework for the Building Society was the Building Society Act of 1874, with subsequent amending legislation in 1894, 1939 ( see Coney Hall ), and 1960.

Initiated studies on blunt head trauma and injury thresholds beginning in 1939 in collaboration with Dr. E. S.

The Second World War broke out in 1939 with the German invasion of Poland.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

The book did not attempt to directly counter or deal with the documents published in Nazi-Soviet Relations and rather, focused upon Western culpability for the outbreak of war in 1939.

He was born in Buca, Izmir Province, in 1939 and is married with one child.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.

Another myth describes Polish cavalry as being armed with both sabres and lances ; lances were used for peacetime ceremonial purposes only and the primary weapon of the Polish cavalryman in 1939 was a rifle.

The governing body of the CPSU was the Party Congress which was held once in 1 – 5 years, depending on the historical period, with an exception of a long break from 1939 to 1952.

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.

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

With the start of the German war against Poland in 1939, the German minority in the parts of Masuria attached to Poland after World War I, organised in paramilitary formation called Selbstschutz begun to engage in massacres of local Polish population ; Poles were imprisoned, tortured and murdered while Masurians were sometimes forcefully placed on Volksliste

* 1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.

It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 — three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland — and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty.

* 1939 – World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed by Nazi Germany.

W. H. Auden's poem, " September 1, 1939 ", written at the start of World War II, contains these lines:

The German pocket battleship had been commerce raiding since the start of the war in September 1939.

The start of the war is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland ; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later.

In 1939, prior to the start of WW II, the cup involved only eight teams ( two each from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Italy and one each from Romania and Yugoslavia ).

" Impressed by Raeder's arguments, Hitler ordered the naval general staff to start planning for an invasion of Norway in October 1939.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

With the start of World War II in September 1939, the SA lost most of its remaining members to military service in the Wehrmacht ( armed forces ).

Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada.

The factory had only produced a handful of cars by the start of the war in 1939 ; the first volume-produced versions of the car's chassis were military vehicles, the Type 82 Kübelwagen ( approximately 52, 000 built ) and the amphibious Type 166 Schwimmwagen ( about 14, 000 built ).

An attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz on August 31, 1939, staged by the German secret police, served as a pretext for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, which marked the start of the Second World War.

According to the city's website, Tczew was the location of the start of World War II when German bombers attacked Polish sapper installations to prevent the bridge from been blown up at 04: 34 on 1 September 1939 ( the shelling of Westerplatte commenced at 04: 45 ).

For example, defense attorney Hans Rolfe ( Maximilian Schell ) raises such issues as the support of U. S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. for eugenics practices, the Hitler-Vatican Reichskonkordat in 1933, the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939 that allowed Hitler to start World War II and Winston Churchill's praising of Adolf Hitler.

The film, written throughout 1934, is notable for predicting World War II, being only 16 months off by having it start on Christmas 1940, rather than 1 September 1939.

In September 1939, at the start of World War II, Mills enlisted in the Royal Engineers.

He began his acting career on stage in 1939, shortly before the start of World War II.

Despite the prewar South African Air Force ( SAAF ) expansion plans, the start of the Second World War in 1939 caught the SAAF unprepared.

With these systems, the BBC began regularly scheduled black-and-white television broadcasts in 1936, but these were shut down again with the start of World War II in 1939.

Upon his return to Japan, he was assigned to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters and eventually rose to the rank of major general, having successively served as commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade ( 1930 – 1934 ), the IJA 4th Division ( 1934 – 1937 ), and after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service ( 1937 – 1938 ), and the IJA 2nd Army stationed in China from 1938 – 1939.

The start of the Second World War in 1939 again interrupted the service, which did not resume until 1945.