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 June 1940, during the early stages of World War II, France fell and the colony was then ruled by the pro-Axis Vichy ( French ) government.

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

Nehru was then succeeded by his socialist colleagues Bose ( 1938 – 39 ) and Azad ( 1940 – 46 ).

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

Latvia's independent status was interrupted at the outset of World War II when in 1940 the country was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, then retaken by the Soviets in 1944 after Germany surrendered.

* Kamerun was split on 20 July 1922 into British Cameroons ( under a Resident ) and French Cameroun ( under a Commissioner until 27 August 1940, then under a Governor ), on 13 December 1946 transformed into United Nations Trust Territories, again a British ( successively under senior district officers officiating as Resident, a Special Resident and Commissioners ) and a French Trust ( under a Haut Commissaire )

* 1940 – The Lahore Resolution ( Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore ) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.

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.

Heydrich became the President of Interpol ( then under Nazi control ) on 24 August 1940, and its headquarters were transferred to Berlin.

Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ) was to have starred Olivier and Leigh ; however, Selznick replaced Olivier with Robert Taylor, then at the peak of his success as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most popular male stars.

The Redskins then met the Bears again in the 1940 NFL Championship Game on December 8, 1940.

In this area Lipscomb originally intended a more ambitious project: " My original intention in the late 1940 ’ s was to spend a few years understanding the boranes, and then to discover a systematic valence description of the vast numbers of electron deficient intermetallic compounds.

Cleveland also became the first Democrat to be nominated by his party three consecutive times, a distinction that would be equaled only by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and then exceeded by him in 1944.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

The 1940 Games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and then for Helsinki ; the 1944 Games had been provisionally planned for London.

He then became an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Minnesota from 1940 to 1941 ( joining the American Federation of Teachers ), and was a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ).

The opera was then given a rest, returning to the touring repertory between 1894 and 1900 and again for most of the time between 1903 and 1940.

He graduated from Townsend Harris High School and then earned a Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940 in mathematics, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Dönitz told the former Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath that " It had been Raeder's fault that until the middle of 1940 only two U-boats slid down the ways " per month, and that if only he had been Navy Commander-in-Chief in 1940 then he would have won the war.

The cipher was broken by a team from the US Army Signals Intelligence Service, then directed by William Friedman in 1940.

The French president of the Ministerial Council, Reynaud, attributed the collapse in a speech on 21 May 1940:

However, due to bureaucratic fears of foreigners doing secret research, the money was not actually issued until Szilárd implored Einstein to send a second letter to the president in the spring of 1940.

Capital punishment was abolished in 1956, though the last person to be executed was in 1940 ( The current president Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo has tried to bring it back ).

* 1940 – The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.

The constitution of 1940 promised a " strong, but not despotic " president and a new state empowered to deal directly with social and economic problems.

The era of the New Liberals, as Estigarribia's supporters were called, came to a sudden end in September 1940, when the president died in an airplane crash.

George Washington, the first president, set an unofficial precedent of serving only two terms, which subsequent presidents followed until 1940.

Wendell Lewis Willkie (; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944 ) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for president in 1940.

* November 5 – United States presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States ' first and only third-term president.

Funk returned to the USA In 1940 he became the president of the Funk Foundation for Medical Research and ended his career in pursuit of orally active spleenic extracts.

He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, serving as its director ( 1920 – 1963 ), vice president ( 1936 – 1940 ), and finally president ( 1950 – 1953 ).

In 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the only president to be elected to a third term ; supporters cited the war in Europe as a reason for breaking with precedent.

In 1940 he was elected senator of Pinar del Río Province when fellow Partido Auténtico member Ramón Grau became president.

A leftist populist, he was preparing to challenge FDR's reelection in 1936 in alliance with radio's influential Catholic priest Charles Coughlin, or run for president in 1940 when Franklin Roosevelt was expected to retire.

Long would then run for president as a Democrat in 1940.

General William S. Knudsen, president of General Motors Corporation from 1937 to 1940, lived during the summer in an old remodeled farm home that later became the clubhouse for Water's Edge Country Club.

Mosley and Diana had two sons: ( Oswald ) Alexander Mosley ( born 26 November 1938 ) and Max Rufus Mosley ( born 13 April 1940 ), president of the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) for 16 years.

As a member ( and in 1941 president ) of the League of American Writers, he served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact.

Although there was a great outcry when a Canadian was cast as an American president, he scored a great triumph on Broadway in Robert E. Sherwood's play Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and repeated his role in the 1940 film version ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor ).

In 1940, he became president of the Institute of Aeronautical Science.

Roger Eugene Ailes ( born May 15, 1940 ) is president of Fox News Channel, chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group.

Upon graduating in 1940 with a Bachelor's of Economics, he was voted " permanent president " of the class.

* Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, ( 1900 – 1970 ), physician, social reformer, president of Costa Rica 1940 – 1944

Considering this and the fact Ryti had signed the peace treaty, Ryti became an acceptable figure for the post of president in December 1940 when Kallio resigned.