However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Mussolini was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity to carry out a long war with France or the United Kingdom and waited until France was on the verge of imminent collapse and surrender from German invasion before declaring war on France and the United Kingdom on 10 June 1940, on the assumption that the war would be short-lived following France's collapse.

In 1940, following the outbreak of conflict, he also tried to sign up for the Local Defence Volunteers, or " Home Guard ", but was turned away because he was already an ARP warden.

In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.

In August 1940, the Soviet Union briefly suspended its deliveries under their commercial agreement after their relations were strained following disagreement over policy in Romania, the Soviet war with Finland, Germany falling behind in its deliveries of goods under the pact and with Stalin worried that Hitler's war with the West might end quickly after France signed an armistice.

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

On 16 July 1940, following Germany's swift and successful occupation of France and the Low Countries and growing impatient with Britain's outright rejection towards his recent peace overtures, Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 16, setting in motion preparations for a landing in Britain.

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

Margaret Thatcher's party forced her from power after the introduction of the poll tax ; Sir Anthony Eden fell from power following the Suez Crisis ; and Neville Chamberlain resigned in 1940 after the Allies were forced to retreat from Norway, as he believed a government supported by all parties was essential, and the Labour and Liberal parties would not join a government headed by him.

In 1920 the Vox-group had taken over the building and the following year commissioned its remodelling by Swiss architect Rudolf Otto Salvisberg ( 1882 – 1940 ), and then erected two transmitting antennae.

** 94. plutonium, Pu, named after the dwarf planet Pluto, following the same naming rule as it follows neptunium and Pluto follows Neptune in the pre-2006 planetary sequence ( 1940 ).

However, the whole of Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940 following a June ultimatum from the Soviets demanding, among other things, that unspecified numbers of Red Army soldiers be allowed to enter the country for the purpose of helping to form a more pro-Soviet government.

* November 10 – WWII: In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France, following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

However, following the explosion of a parachute mine outside the building on 8 December 1940, the services relocated to new premises away from the likely target of Broadcasting House.

Vera followed him the following year and they were married in Bedford, Massachusetts on 9 March 1940.

Between September and November 1940, the ethnic Germans of Bessarabia were offered resettlement to Germany, following a German-Soviet agreement.

See, for instance, position expressed by European Parliament, which condemned " the fact that the occupation of these formerly independent and neutral States by the Soviet Union occurred in 1940 following the Molotov / Ribbentrop pact, and continues.

Mao ’ s " Intellectual " Marxist development can be divided into five major periods: ( 1 ) The Initial Marxist Period from 1920 – 1926 ; ( 2 ) the formative Maoist period from 1927 – 1935 ; ( 3 ) the mature Maoism period from 1935 – 1940 ; ( 4 ) the civil war period from 1940 – 1949 ; and ( 5 ) the post-1949 period, following the revolutionary victory.

The United States obtained portions of a Purple machine from the Japanese Embassy in Germany following Germany's defeat in 1945 ( see image above ) and discovered that the Japanese had used precisely the same " stepping switch " in its construction that Leo Rosen of SIS had chosen when building a " duplicate " ( or Purple analog machine ) in Washington in 1939 and 1940.

On 31 May 1940, following the outbreak of World War II, Gorton enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force Reserve.

The following morning, 11 April 1940, bomber aircraft of the Luftwaffe attacked Nybergsund, destroying the small town where the Norwegian government was staying in an attempt to wipe out Norway's unyielding King and Government.

Widespread use of the wire recording device occurred within the decades spanning from 1940 until 1960, following the development of inexpensive designs licensed internationally by the Brush Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio and the Armour Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology ( later Illinois Institute of Technology ).

In addition, Pete is featured in the following Mickey Mouse cartoons: The Barn Dance ( 1928 ), The Barnyard Battle ( 1929 ), The Cactus Kid ( 1930 ), The Chain Gang ( 1930 ), Traffic Troubles ( 1931 ), The Mad Dog ( 1932 ), Barnyard Olympics ( 1932 ), Mickey in Arabia ( 1932 ), The Klondike Kid ( 1932 ), Mickey's Good Deed ( 1932 ), Building a Building ( 1933 ), The Mail Pilot ( 1933 ), Mickey's Gala Premier ( 1933 ), Shanghaied ( 1934 ), The Dognapper ( 1934 ), Two-Gun Mickey ( 1934 ), Mickey's Service Station ( 1935 ), Moving Day ( 1936 ), The Worm Turns ( 1937 ), Mickey's Amateurs ( 1937 ) and Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip ( 1940 ).

* Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940

However, after the French-German Armistice and the subsequent destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria by the British Navy in July 1940, the French-Moroccan authorities asked all Gibraltarian evacuees to be removed.

* 1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U. S. Midwest.

The Second World War, between 1940 and 1945, meant for Monza bombing, destruction and civilian casualties, and, after the September 1943 Italian Armistice, German occupation.

On Armistice Day in November 1940, communists were among the university students demonstrating against German repression by marching along the Champs-Élysées.

The Carro Armato P40 tank, roughly equivalent to the M4 Sherman and Panzer IV, was designed in 1940, but no prototype was produced until 1942 and developers / manufacturers were not able to start production before the Armistice.

Girls also helped stage the celebrations after the de-facto-capitulation of France ( see Second Armistice at Compiègne, 22 June 1940 ).

The 3rd DLC retreated from Meuse to Mussidan in the Dordogne where the division was demobilised after the Armistice was declared on the 22nd of June, 1940.

The Soviet Union's accessions of Finnish territory were based on the Moscow Armistice signed in Moscow on 19 September 1944 and resulted in an extension of the accessions in the Moscow Peace Treaty ( 1940 ) that ended the Winter War.

Following France's surrender and Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government.

The Glade of the Armistice in the Compiègne Forest was the site of the signing of two armistices ; the 1918 Armistice with Germany and the 1940 Armistice with France.

In 1940, the Demographic Service ( Service de la démographie ) was created under the Ministry of Finance in order to replace the military recruitment office prohibited by the June 1940 Armistice with Nazi Germany.

Bock participated in the Armistice with France in late June 1940.

The Demographic Service had been created in 1940 in order to replace the military recruitment office prohibited by the June 1940 Armistice with Nazi Germany.

After the Armistice with France in 1940, during World War II, German forces took numerous memorials from the forest of Compiègne, where the Armistice with Germany that ended World War I was also signed, as prizes to Crawinkel.

Built prior to World War II, Istres Air Base was first used by the Armée de l ' air during the early part of the war, and after the 1940 Battle of France and the June Armistice with Nazi Germany, became part of the limited () air force of the Vichy Government.

After the Second Armistice at Compiègne in June 1940, the Reich Interior Ministry produced a memorandum on the annexation of a strip of eastern France from the mouth of the Somme to Lake Geneva, intended as a reserve for post-war German colonization.

The capital region of France had been governed by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice in June 1940, when the German Army occupied northern and westmost France, and when the puppet regime of Vichy France was established in the town of Vichy in central France.

After the Armistice of 22 June 1940, he left Mexico to join the Free French Forces ( FFL ) in London.

Famous storms that were panhandle hooks are the Armistice Day Blizzard of November 11, 1940 and the storm which sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975.