They could not imagine that the Germans, whom they had defeated only twenty years previously, could defeat them in a mere six weeks, as happened when France fell in June 1940.

Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

In 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government.

Paris fell to the Germans on 14 June 1940, and the French leaders surrendered on 24 June 1940 after the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.

The Germans attempted to land a weather team on the island on 16 November 1940.

On 10 May 1940, Ribbentrop summoned the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg ambassadors to present them with notes justifying the German invasion of their countries, several hours after the Germans had invaded those nations.

When the Germans threatened to overrun Paris in 1940, where she was then living, he arranged her escape to England.

In terms of fighter aircraft production, the British exceeded their production plans by 43 percent, while the Germans remained 40 percent behind target by the summer 1940.

It was quickly taken by the Germans during the Battle of Maastricht in May 1940, but on 14 September 1944 it was also the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

The original line construction did not cover the area chosen by the Germans for their first challenge, which was through the Ardennes in 1940, a plan known as Fall Gelb.

First the Germans tried to achieve air supremacy but were defeated by the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain in late summer 1940.

In Western Europe, British troops deployed to the Continent, but in a phase nicknamed the Phoney War by the British and " Sitzkrieg " ( sitting war ) by the Germans, neither side launched major operations against the other until April 1940.

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

In the months leading up to the opening of the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the GOP was deeply divided between the party's isolationists, who wanted to stay out of the war at all costs, and the party's interventionists, who felt that the United Kingdom and her allies needed to be given all aid short of war to prevent the Germans from conquering all of Europe.

From 1940 on Hitler tried to get Germans to resettle from the areas where they constituted a minority ( the Baltics, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe ) to the Warthegau – the region around Poznań, German Posen.

On 17 May 1940 the capital city Brussels fell to the Germans.

* His contact with the Germans and his meeting with Hitler in Berchtesgaden ( 19 November 1940 ).

The city was heavily damaged ( approximately 45 % was destroyed ) during World War II: In June 1940 first, when the area between the Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Seine river burned for 48 hours, because the Germans did not allow the firemen to come and extinguish the fire.

Conquered by the Germans in World War II ( 1940 ), it was liberated in 24 – 27 October 1944 by the British 53rd ( Welsh ) Division. This town was mentioned on ' Who do Think You Are?

After France fell to the Germans in 1940, the Vichy government administered Madagascar until 1942, when British Empire troops occupied the strategic island in the Battle of Madagascar in order to preclude its seizure by the Japanese.

The Dutch Army destroyed the first bridge when the Germans invaded Holland in 1940.

Over the course of the morning and early afternoon of April 9, 1940, the Germans flew in sufficient reinforcements to move into the capital in the afternoon, but by that time the Norwegian government had fled.

* 1940 4 July – French bombers, based in French Morocco, carried out a retaliatory air raid over Gibraltar as a reprisal for the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, by the Force H ( about 1, 300 French sailors were killed and about 350 were wounded in the action against the French fleet ).

In October 1940 – February 1942, the NKVD under Beria carried out a new purge of the Red Army and related industries.

Sea Lion was postponed indefinitely on 17 September 1940 and never carried out.

Another consequence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, carried out by the Southern Front in June – July 1940.

Brother William carried on until 1940.

Behind the scenes the Irish state worked with the Allies ; in 1940, the government agreed provisionally with Britain that it would accept the entry of British troops and put its own armed forces under their command should the Germans invade Ireland-see Plan W. There was a provisional German plan for an invasion of Ireland, known as Operation Green, but it was never carried out.

His main work in topology was carried out while he was in a prisoner of war camp in Edelbach, Austria from 1940 to 1945.

Operation Ambassador was an operation carried out by British Commandos on 14 – 15 July 1940 within the context of the Second World War.

By 5 July 1940 they had been fully raised and a little more than a week later they carried out one of the first Commando raids of the war.

On 23 August 1940, 8 August 1942 and 22 January 1943 bombing raids were carried out upon New Milton by the German Luftwaffe.

Between 1940 and 1944, a wholesale change in the coinage was carried out.

The special unit became known as the 278th Squadriglia, and from September 1940 carried out many shipping attacks, including on 4 September ( when Buscaglia had his aircraft damaged by fighters ) and 10 September, when Robone claimed a merchant ship sunk.

The execution was carried out on 23 December 1940 at the Bois de Vincennes ; the commanding officer was Général Otto von Stūlpnagel.

Heatley recorded these trials, carried out on eight mice in May 1940, in his diary:

Very early experiments were carried out by Michael Clapham-who at the time was working on print technology at the Kynoch Works in Aston in Birmingham according to and interview he gave to a BBC documentary broadcast In Feb 2000 ( http :// news. bbc. co. uk / 1 / hi / uk / 643913. stm ) ’ Dr Philip Baxter at ICI made the first small batch of gaseous uranium hexafluoride for Professor James Chadwick in 1940.

Between 1935 and 1940, the Directorate of National Parks carried out a number of urban public works, giving the city a distinctive architectural pattern ; among them, perhaps the best-known is the Civic Center.

It began in syndication on April 1, 1940, and was broadcast on some stations that carried NBC programs, although it does not seem to have been an official part of that network's programming.

The bridge featured pedestrian walkways as well as four lanes of vehicular traffic, which carried 17, 000 vehicles per day during the year 1940.

Most of the remainder of today's Nowe Miasto district was incorporated into the city in the expansion carried out under Nazi occupation in 1940 – 1942.

Most of the remainder of the district, including Ławica and Strzeszyn, was incorporated into the city during the expansions carried out under Nazi occupation in 1940 – 1942.

Dębiec was incorporated into Poznań in the expansion of 1925 ( during the time of the Second Polish Republic ), and Świerczewo was added in the expansion of 1940 – 1942 carried out under Nazi occupation.

Identifying Four Color comics can be a challenge, as only issues published between c. 1940 and 1946 actually carried the title Four Color Comics on the cover.

After Elizabeth Yeats died in 1940, the work of the press was carried on by two of her long-time assistants, Esther Ryan and Marie Gill.

Systematic study of the aqueduct was carried out from 1940 to 1970 by Waldemar Haberey.