* 1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.

On 7 September 1940, Bulgaria succeeded in negotiating a recovery of Southern Dobruja with the Treaty of Craiova ( see Second Vienna Award ).

* 1940 – World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

In May 1940, without resigning his seat, Holt joined the Second Australian Imperial Force as a gunner, but a few months later three Cabinet ministers and several of Australia's top military staff were killed in an air crash in Canberra.

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.

* 1940 – France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.

* John M. Walker, Jr. ( born 1940 ), former chief judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

In August 1940, Ribbentrop oversaw the Second Vienna Award, which saw about 40 % of Transylvania region of Romania returned to Hungary.

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

The last Coalition in the UK before 2010 was led by Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill during most of the Second World War from May 1940 to May 1945.

During the Second World War, Romania tried again to remain neutral, but on June 28, 1940, it received a Soviet ultimatum with an implied threat of invasion in the event of non-compliance.

In August 1940, Northern Transylvania was awarded to Hungary by Germany and Italy through the Second Vienna Award.

* 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

* German submarine U-74 ( 1940 ), a Type VIIB submarine that served in the Second World War until sunk on 2 May 1942

During the Second World War white miners came out on strike in 1940.

* German submarine U-96 ( 1940 ), a Type VIIC submarine that served in the Second World War until sunk on 30 March 1945 ; the subject of the director Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 film, Das Boot.

In August 1940, during the Second World War, British Somaliland was conquered and annexed to Italian East Africa, which itself was conquered by British-led forces in the course of 1941.

During the Second World War the famous athletics coach Franz Stampfl taught physical education at the school until his internment in 1940 as an enemy alien.

Sòng Zhéyuán ( 宋哲元 ) ( October 30, 1885 – April 5, 1940 ) was a Chinese general during the Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ).

However, after the Battle of France in 1940 during the Second World War, the city was annexed once more by the German Third Reich into a Reichsgau named Westmark.

When the German Army marched into France in 1940 during World War II, the Nazis seized the prints and negative of the film, chiefly because of its anti-war message, and what were perceived as ideological criticisms pointed towards Germany on the eve of the Second World War.

Other partners during this period included Paulette Goddard in Second Chorus ( 1940 ), in which he dance-conducted the Artie Shaw orchestra.

Astaire singing in Second Chorus ( 1940 )

Lang was born in Vienna as the second son of Anton Lang ( 1860 – 1940 ), an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline " Paula " Lang née Schlesinger ( 1864 – 1920 ).

Vienna, 1940

: Vienna 1940 ( two-handed arrangement ); two-handed arrangement by Friedrich Wührer ( 1952 )

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Due to its pro-German stance, Hungary received favourable territorial settlements when Germany annexed Czechoslovakia in 1938 – 1939 and received Northern Transylvania from Romania via the Vienna Awards of 1940.

On 30 August 1940, Germany forced Romania to cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary as a result of the second Vienna Award.

To assuage this resentment, Germany and Italy implemented the Vienna Awards in 1938 and 1940 and this was subsequently followed by Hungary joining the Tripartite Pact on November 20, 1940.

On 15 December 1940, the remains of Napoléon II were transferred from Vienna to the dome of Les Invalides in Paris.

Norrington claims that vibrato in the earliest recordings is used only selectively, as an expressive device ; the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra were not recorded using vibrato comparable to modern vibrato until 1935, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra not until 1940.

c. In August 1940, as the second Vienna Award transferred the northern half of Transylvania to Hungary, an exile of Romanian inhabitants began.

As a result of the Second Vienna Award, it has been returned to Hungary between 1940 and 1945.

Although it was the most dedicated ally of Germany, Romania's turning to the Allied side in August 1944 was rewarded with Northern Transylvania, which had been granted to Hungary in 1940 after the Second Vienna Award.

After growing up in Vienna and attending Volks-& Hauptschule, he worked as an office intern for three years ; in 1940, he was conscripted during World War II, and transferred to a punishment battalion after suffering a war wound in 1941.

In 1939 Schütte-Lihotzky joined the Austrian Communist Party ( KPÖ ) and in December 1940, of her own free will, together with Eichholzer, travelled back to Vienna to secretly contact the Austrian Communist resistance movement.

1 May 1939-1 April 1940 Josef Bürckel ( b. 1895-d. 1944 ) NSDAP, in fact the maintained last Austrian Premier of 15 October 1938 constituted metropolitan capital city-entity Gross-Wien ( Great Vienna ), is in transitional office, then the same is made the first of two Reichsstatthalter ( he till 10 August 1940 ), equivalent to a Gauleiter in Germany proper.

From 1940 to 1944, as a consequence of the Second Vienna Award, the city was ceded back to Hungary.

Due to the persecution of Jews, Tintner moved out of Vienna in 1938, arriving in Auckland, New Zealand in 1940.

In 1940, as a result of the Second Vienna Award, Northern Transylvania ( including Cluj ) was ceded to Hungary and thus the airport was used by the Hungarian Air Force and German Luftwaffe.