In the winter of 1940 – 41, Ribbentrop strongly pressured Yugoslavia to sign the Tripartite Pact, despite advice from the German Legation in Belgrade that such a move would probably lead to the overthrow of Crown Prince Paul, the Yugoslav Regent.

The coalition was re-formed under Archie Cameron in 1940, and continued until October 1941 despite the election of Arthur Fadden as leader after the 1940 Election.

King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing an agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces, despite the fact that the U. S. remained officially neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

He held the Canadian federal election, 1940 as normally scheduled, despite the ongoing World War, unlike Britain, which formed a government of national unity and did not hold a wartime election.

Passenger rail service to Otoe was discontinued in 1932 ; despite this setback, the town continued to grow, reaching its maximum historical population of 298 in the 1940 census.

In May, 1940, the German army crossed the Meuse, despite the resistance of the French army.

However, despite this prosperity, in 1940 he and his wife Marjorie were divorced.

American Jews voted 90 % against the Republicans and supported Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman in the elections of 1940, 1944 and 1948, despite both party platforms supporting the creation of a Jewish state in the latter two elections.

German industrial production actually rose continuously from 1940 to 1945, despite the best efforts of the Allied air forces to cripple industry.

When the Germans occupied France in June 1940, Blum made no effort to leave the country, despite the extreme danger he was in as a Jew and a socialist leader ; instead of fleeing the country, he escaped to southern France, but the French ordered his arrest.

After the Fall of France in 1940, Cambodia and the rest of French Indochina were ruled by the Axis-puppet Vichy France government and despite an invasion of French Indochina, Japan allowed French colonial officials to remain in their colonies under Japanese supervision.

In December 1940, the French-Thai War erupted and despite French resistance against the Japanese backed Thai forces, Japan compelled French authorities to cede Battambang province to Thailand.

Beginning in 1940, in Marseille, despite the watchful eye of the collaborationist Vichy regime, he and a small group of volunteers hid people at the Villa Air-Bel until they could be smuggled out.

# the enactment of the right to vote for women in 1940, despite resistance from Duplessis and the Catholic Church ;

Fred was the son of Sam's younger sister, Manya ( who, despite the best efforts of Sam and his brother Ben in 1939 and 1940, could not be extricated from the Warsaw Ghetto and perished in the Holocaust ).

The Commando began intensive airborne training in June 1940, originally 500 strong, but this had been reduced to 21 officers and 321 other ranks by September 1940 ; despite already receiving rigorous training, many of the commandos failed their training by refusing to conduct a parachute drop.

In 1940, Shachtman left with a large part of the membership to form the Workers Party, with Shachtman and Burnham arguing that the Stalinists constituted a new bureaucratic class in the Soviet Union while Cannon, like Trotsky, felt that the Soviet Union should be defended despite Stalin's dictatorship and invasion of Finland.

Former UFA MLA Chester Ronning became the Alberta CCF's first leader in the 1940 provincial election but despite winning 11 % of the vote the party was unable to win any seats in the Alberta legislature-the CCF was unable to win the support of the UFA's conservative supporters, or put a dent in support for the agrarian populism of the Social Credit Party of Alberta.

In the 1940 election, he returned to Parliament despite the poor showing of the Conservatives in that election and the personal defeat of Robert Manion.

By 1940, under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, it had gained such power that, for the first time, it demanded the establishment of a Muslim state ( Pakistan ), despite the opposition of the Indian National Congress.

By early June 1940 the Norwegian Campaign stood as a failure for the allies, and by securing access to Norwegian ports by force, Nazi Germany could obtain the Swedish iron ore supply it needed for war production despite the British naval blockade.

Moreover, Benda survived the German occupation of France, 1940 – 44, and the Vichy regime despite being a Jew and having called the Germans " one of the plagues of the world ".

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

At the wedding of Patton's daughter Ruth Ellen ( 1940 ), a couple who knew Patton from Hawaii ( Restarick and Eleanor Jones Withington ) crashed the wedding, and explained they were in the area when they saw the wedding announcement and hoped Patton didn't mind them showing up uninvited.

In 1940, Keaton married Eleanor Norris ( 1918 – 1998 ), who was 23 years his junior.

with Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody of 1940

His first post-Ginger dance partner was the redoubtable Eleanor Powell — considered the finest female tap-dancer of her generation — in Broadway Melody of 1940 where they performed a celebrated extended dance routine to Cole Porter's " Begin the Beguine ".

He and his wife had five children, Christopher Joseph McCarthy ( April 30, 1940 – April 30, 1940 ), Eleanor McCarthy Howell ( born October 30, 1947 ), Mary Abagail McCarthy ( April 29, 1949 – July 28, 1990 ), Michael Benet McCarthy ( born April 5, 1952 ) and Margaret Alice McCarthy Brown ( born July 17, 1956 ).

In 1940, the Old People ’ s Welfare Committee ( OPWC ), chaired by Eleanor Rathbone, was formed as a forum for discussion between government and voluntary organisations.

In September 1940 Cochran wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt to introduce the proposal of starting a women's flying division in the Army Air Forces.

In September 1940, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt maneuvered with another State Department official to bypass Hull's refusal to allow Jewish refugees aboard a Portuguese ship, the Quanza, to receive visas to enter the U. S. Through Mrs. Roosevelt's efforts, the Jewish refugees disembarked on September 11, 1940, in Virginia.

* Eleanor Clift ( born 1940 ), Newsweek contributing editor and regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group.

Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell dance to " Begin the Beguine " in Broadway Melody of 1940.

Eleanor Hovda ( March 27, 1940 – November 12, 2009 ) was a composer and dancer from the United States of America.

" According to Joseph P. Lash's book " Eleanor and Franklin ," the president considered Jones too conservative and shot down a strong movement to make Jones the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1940.

Eleanor Jarman ( born 1904 ) was an American runaway, fugitive from justice, and robber who was jailed, escaped from jail in 1940, was placed on the FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, and remains missing.

Eleanor Clift ( born July 7, 1940 ) is a political reporter, television pundit and author.

She illustrated a number of books with line drawings, including Over The Garden Wall by Eleanor Farjeon ( 1933 ), Mustard, Pepper and Salt by Alison Uttley ( 1938 ), Red-Letter Holiday by Virginia Pye ( 1940 ), Crossings by Walter de la Mare ( 1942 ), Countess Kate by Charlotte M. Yonge ( 1948 ) and The Bedside Barsetshire by L. O. Tingay ( 1949 ).

Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II, she joined Billy Rose's Aquacade, where she took on the role vacated by Eleanor Holm after the show's move from New York City to San Francisco.

Eleanor Lynn Helprin, Helprin ’ s mother, was a successful actress, starring in several Broadway productions in the 1930 ’ s and 1940 ’ s.

His daughter, Esme Eleanor Howard, married the Reverend John William Fletcher Boughey, son of the Reverend Percy Fletcher Boughey and Elsie de Strange Herring, on 25 April 1940.

*" Begin the Beguine "-Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell from Broadway Melody of 1940 ( 1940 )

Also in 1940, Ricketts began a relationship with Eleanor Susan Brownell Anthony " Toni " Solomons Jackson, who became his common-law wife.