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 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 ).

* 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.

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

Following the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Alexander brought the 1st Infantry Division to France, where, in late May 1940, he successfully led the division's withdrawal to Dunkirk.

On 11 July 1940 Raeder met with Hitler where it was agreed that the work on the H-class " super-battleships " envisioned in Plan Z of January 1939 that had been stopped at the outbreak of war in September 1939 should resume at once.

After the outbreak of World War II, the state was recognised by Slovakia ( 1 June 1940 ), France ( 12 July 1940 ), Romania ( 1 December 1940 ), Bulgaria ( 10 May 1941 ), Finland ( 18 July 1941 ), Denmark ( August 1941 ), Croatia ( 2 August 1941 )— all controlled or influenced by Japan's ally Germany — as well as by the China's Wang Jingwei government ( 30 November 1940 ), Thailand ( 5 August 1941 ) and the Philippines ( 1943 )— all under Japanese control.

After the outbreak of the 2nd World War the War Department took over the Stadium in 1940, where for a while POWs ( Prisoners of War ) were housed in huts placed on the pitch, for this the club received compensation of £ 4, 570 in 1945.

b. In Park's ( 1993 ) article, the note on Choi's promotion to 2nd dan in karate is followed by a note about the outbreak of World War II, which would suggest that Choi's 2nd dan promotion occurred no later than the early stages of that conflict ( c. 1939 – 1940 ).

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Childe was unable to travel across continental Europe, and so focused on producing a book about the prehistoric archaeology of Britain: the result was Prehistoric Communities of the British Isles ( 1940 ).

The first mass outbreak of civil disobedience occurred in the autumn of 1940, when students of Oslo University began to wear paper clips on their lapels to demonstrate their resistance to the German occupiers and their Norwegian collaborators.

The creation of Hill Air Force Base to the north in 1940, followed shortly by the outbreak of World War II, changed the face of Layton forever.

In 1939 and 1940 Lynch guided Cork to back-to-back National Hurling League titles, however, the 1941 championship was severely hampered due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

At the outbreak of war, the orchestra was cut from 61 to 35, and then in 1940 to only 24 players.

Just over a year after the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1940, the house which Le Mesurier had rented was hit by a bomb and he lost all his possessions ; the same bombing raid had also hit the theatre in Brixton in which he was working.

The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad and originally scheduled to be held from 21 September to 6 October 1940, in Tokyo, Japan, were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II.

Chamberlain remained Prime Minister from the outbreak of war in September 1939 until May 1940, when, in Dunglass's words, " he could no longer command support of a majority in the Conservative party.

Shortly after the outbreak of war on September 3, 1939, Rennie began to receive offers for larger film roles, starting with his first ( small ) billed performance in the wartime morale booster The Big Blockade, seen in March 1940.

Alberta's first known outbreak occurred in 1940, infecting of forest in Banff.

At the outbreak of World War One in early August 1914, hundreds of thousands of Berliners cheered the military parade, which took place here At the outbreak of World War Two, no such scenes were seen, according to the American journalist and historian William L. Shirer, but after Adolf Hitler returned from his inspection of Paris in 1940, a huge victory parade was held.