The German occupation of the Netherlands and France in May – June 1940 altered the situation for the Japanese government.

* 1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

* 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion.

* 1940 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.

There is also is unitary Belgian nationalism, several versions of a Greater Netherlands ideal, and a German-speaking community of Belgium annexed from Prussia in 1920, and re-annexed by Germany in 1940 – 1944.

Later, Reich Commissioner of the occupied Netherlands 1940 – 45.

Broadcasts from the Netherlands were interrupted by the German invasion in May 1940.

On 9 May 1940, the Philips directors learned that the German invasion of the Netherlands was to take place the following day.

After Germany invaded the Low Countries during 1940, Pius XII sent expressions of sympathy to the Queen of the Netherlands, the King of Belgium, and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

Germany invaded France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg on 10 May 1940.

Invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany ( see Battle of Belgium ) started on May 10, 1940 under the operational plan Fall Gelb and formed part of the greater Battle of France together with invasions of the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

The 1940 race, run three months prior to the entry of The Netherlands to World War II, saw over 3, 000 competitors start at 05: 00 on 30 January, with the first five finishing at 16: 34.

In a series of reports Raeder submitted to Hitler starting in June 1940, he called for Germany to permanently occupy France and to annex Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and all of the British, French and Belgian colonies in sub-Saharan Africa plus South Africa in order that Germany would become the dominant naval power in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The Olympics were formally cancelled on 2 May 1940, a week before the Netherlands was invaded.

When the Germans invaded the Netherlands on the 10th of May 1940 German paratroopers landed in Dordrecht.

Prior to 1940, the Netherlands was a neutral country, generally on good terms with Germany.

* Black Front ( Netherlands ) ( 1934 – 41 ), known as National Front 1940 – 41

Hendrikus Colijn, party leader from 1920 until 1940, Prime Minister of the Netherlands | Prime Minister from 1925 until 1926 and from 1933 until 1939.

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Prime Minister of the Netherlands | Prime Minister from 1940 until 1945 during World War II leading the Dutch government in exile.

In 1940 Winschoten had the second largest Jewish community in The Netherlands after Amsterdam.

The incident was used by the Nazis to link Great Britain to Georg Elser's failed assassination of Hitler at the Burgerbraukeller two days before and to justify their later invasion of the Netherlands, a neutral country, on 10 May 1940.

Part of the center of Rhenen, which was located near the defensive Grebbelinie ( Grebbe line ), was destroyed during the German attack on the Netherlands in May 1940.

* Constant Lambert's ballet Horoscope was being performed in the Netherlands in 1940, and the unpublished full score had to be left behind when German forces invaded that country.

In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

The program was instituted in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C..

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

* 1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

In 1940, ACLU leadership was caught up in the Red Scare, and voted to exclude Communists from its leadership positions.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

He was tried on 3 May 1940.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.

The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.

In July 1940, he was appointed acting lieutenant-general, placed in command of V Corps, responsible for the defence of Hampshire and Dorset, and started a long-running feud with the new commander-in-chief, Southern Command, Claude Auchinleck.

The only direct enemy action that the site experienced was when 3 bombs, thought to have been intended for Bletchley railway station, were dropped on 20 – 21 November 1940.

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

In 1940, as the European political situation worsened after the outbreak of World War II, Bartók was increasingly tempted to flee Hungary.

Penicillinase was the first β-lactamase to be identified: It was first isolated by Abraham and Chain in 1940 from Gram-negative E. coli even before penicillin entered clinical use, but penicillinase production quickly spread to bacteria that previously did not produce it or produced it only rarely.