The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.

In 1940, at least 500 patients were deported from the Heil-und Pflegeanstalt Ansbach Medical and Nursing Clinic to the extermination facilities Sonnenstein and Hartheim which were disguised as psychiatric institutions, as part of the T4 euthanasia action.

A portrait of Broadway in the early part of the 20th century and " The Great White Way " late at night appeared in " Artist In Manhattan "( 1940 ) written by the painter-writer Jerome Myers:

After the bombing of Guernica in 1937 and of Rotterdam in 1940, it was commonly assumed that terror bombing was a part of Luftwaffe doctrine.

According to his own account, it took place in 1940 in a part of the New Forest and was designed to ward off the Nazis from invading Britain by magical means.

Vichy France was established on 10 July 1940 to govern the unoccupied part of France and its colonies.

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.

Alan Turing in 1940 used similar ideas as part of the statistical analysis of the breaking of the German second world war Enigma ciphers.

In June 1940, Stalin directed the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, proclaiming this formerly Romanian territory part of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.

* 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.

Between 1940, till the 1980s worldwide spread of neo-liberalism through the Washington Consensus, the Mexican unions did not operate independently, but instead as part of a state institutional system, largely controlled by the ruling party.

During the Second World War, following the armistice of 22 June 1940, continental Normandy was part of the German occupied zone of France.

The territory of Budjak ( southern Bessarabia ) became a part of the Ukrainian SSR in June 1940.

* Army Huts – nine single-storey wood-frame utilitarian Second World War buildings ( 1940 ) on the northern part of the University of Victoria campus are on the Registry of Historic Places of Canada

The notion of wholesale deportation of Jews, as part of the plan to " purify " all of Europe, reached its peak in the forced deportation of Jews to labor camps in Poland and in the Madagascar Plan of 1940, but was shelved due to logistical challenges during the war.

The areas allotted to the Ukrainian SSR in 1940 became part of the new independent Ukraine since 1991, while the area roughly corresponding to Transnistria became the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic separate from the government of the Republic of Moldova.

Bessarabia was part of Greater Romania between 1918 and 1940

Although the bells were destroyed again in 1941 in the Blitz, they had fallen silent on 13th June 1940 as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II.

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.

*** Tropical Storm Irene ( 1947 ), part of the 1940 – 49 Pacific typhoon seasons

Thanks in part to its success in organizing labor unions and its early opposition to fascism, the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ) increased its membership through the 1930s, reaching a peak of about 75, 000 members in 1940 – 41.

A semi-autobiographical depiction of his 1940 romance with Kip Kiernan in Provincetown, Massachusetts, it was produced for the first time on October 1, 2006 in Provincetown by the Shakespeare on the Cape production company, as part of the First Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival.

The Greek historian Aristotle Kallis wrote that the best evidence suggests that in late 1940 Hitler was serious about carrying out Raeder's " Mediterranean plan ", but only within certain strict limits and conditions, and that he saw the " Mediterranean plan " as part of the preparations for Barbarossa by defeating Britain first.

From 1940 to 1941, it was occupied by the Italians and was part of Italian East Africa.

In June 1940 he volunteered for the new No. 8 Commando under Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Laycock which became part of Force Z ( later named " Layforce ").

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.

Voroshilov commanded Soviet troops during the Winter War from November 1939 to January 1940, but, due to his poor planning and overall incompetence, the Red Army suffered about 185, 000 casualties.

The LWS was demonstrated to General Halder on 2 August 1940 by the Reinhardt Trials Staff on the island of Sylt and, though he was critical of its high silhouette on land, he recognised the overall usefulness of the design.

The Rhodesian Air Training Group ( RATG ), operating 1940 – 1945, was set up as part of the overall Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

In July 1940 Peng was given overall command of the largest communist operation of the anti-Japanese war, the Hundred Regiments Offensive.

However, Sachs said the 1940 concert performance with the NBC Symphony, also in Carnegie Hall, may be better in overall interpretation.

On 9 September 1940, Italian forces under the overall command of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani invaded Egypt from their base in Cyrenaica.

By 1940 15 % of India's rice overall came from Burma, while in Bengal the proportion was slightly higher given the province's proximity to Burma.

As a result, the 51st Battalion's numbers fell, however, in 1940 the national service scheme was reintroduced in effort to improve the nation's overall level of military preparedness and the battalion, its numbers swelled by an intake of conscripted soldiers, undertook a period of continuous training at Miowera, near Bowen.

A second All-Star selection followed in 1940 – 41 as Hextall again led the NHL in goal scoring and finished in a tie for second in overall points.

It is likely that the tanks exported to Yugoslavia ( in April 1940 ) are not included under the 1, 601 total and that overall production was 1, 685 ; serial numbers known to be actually used indicate a production of at least 1670 vehicles.

In 1940, he was called to arms but avoided mobilization by finding a job in the foreign ministry's radio propaganda department, rising quickly to become the ministry's connection with Goebbels ' propaganda ministry.

Jüri Uluots, the last legitimate prime minister of the Republic of Estonia ( according to the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia ) prior to its fall to the Soviet Union in 1940, delivered a radio address that implored all able-bodied men born from 1904 through 1923 to report for military service ( before this, Uluots had opposed Estonian mobilization.

With the start of full-scale war mobilization in the summer of 1940, the cities revived.

The early and unfinished version of Land of Black Gold ( 1939 – 1940 ) alluded to the mobilization of Nazi war power.

The war mobilization dramatically expanded union membership, from 8. 7 million in 1940 to over 14. 3 million in 1945, about 36 % of the work force.

While the key carrier technology of the first Industrial Revolution ( 1770 – 1850 ) was based on water-powered mechanization, the second Kondratiev ( 1850 – 1900 ) was enabled by steam-powered technology, the third ( 1900 – 1940 ) was characterized by the electrification of social and productive organization, the fourth by motorization and the automated mobilization of society ( 1940 – 1970 ), and the most recent one by the digitization of social systems.

It was used again by the Army in the mobilization of 1940 that preceded the American entry into World War II and later housed a convalescent and rehabilitation hospital.

In the prewar years, several dozen other merchant ships were built for the Commission under its original 500 ship Long Range Shipbuilding Program but it wasn't until the late fall of 1940 the critical importance of the Commission to the defense of the lifeline to Great Britain and to the national mobilization for war became apparent when the beginnings of the Emergency Shipbuilding program were laid.

The British, by contrast, had already accomplished mobilization for total war by 1940, thereby increasing the output of weapons — especially heavy bombers — vastly.

With the Soviet occupation in 1940, the German invasion in 1941, the Holocaust, the return of Soviet forces in 1944, and the illegal mobilization of Latvian citizens by both occupying powers, severe demographic changes took place.