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.

While Allied forces in 1940 lacked the experience to successfully develop these strategies, resulting in France's capitulation with heavy losses, they characterized later Allied operations.

In 1940, the U. S. Army gave Cessna their largest order to date, when they ordered 33 specially equipped Cessna T-50s.

Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter ( mistakenly thinking that " C. L. Moore " was a man ), and they married in 1940.

Following the collapse of the Ur-III dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites gained control over most of Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms.

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

In 1939 Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang were sent on a mission by the Kuomintang to the Middle eastern countries such as Egypt, Turkey, and Syria to gain support for the Chinese War against Japan, they also visited Afghanistan in 1940 and contacted Muhammad Amin Bughra, they asked him to come to Chongqing, the capital of the Kuomintang regime.

Following the occupation of Luxembourg by Germany on the 10 May 1940, recruitment for the Company of Volunteers continued until the 4 December 1940 when they were moved to Weimar in Germany to be trained as German police.

In the summer of 1940, when he was 12, he built a boy-sized aircraft with his brother, which they used to fly from the roof of the Grinnell College stables.

They assert that their incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1940 ( as the Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, and Estonian SSR ) under the provisions of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was illegal, and that they therefore remained independent countries under Soviet occupation.

" Premiered respectively by Prokofiev ( No. 6: 8 April 1940 ), Sviatoslav Richter ( No. 7: Moscow, 18 January 1943 ) and Emil Gilels ( No. 8: Moscow, 30 December 1944 ), they were subsequently championed in particular by Richter.

In 1940, they returned to Chongqing and established the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, which opened job opportunities for people through weaving, sewing and other crafts.

In February 1940, Jill Esmond agreed to divorce Olivier, and Leigh Holman agreed to divorce Leigh, although they maintained a strong friendship for the rest of Leigh's life.

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

Suppose further, because this is necessary to the alleged case for our nuclear weapon as the defence of last resort, that, as in 1940, the United States was standing aloof from the contest but that, in contrast with 1940, Britain and the Warsaw Pact respectively possessed the nuclear weaponry which they do today.

On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?

In 1940, Russian botanists Serebriakova and Sizov proposed a complex classification in which they also recognized C. sativa and C. indica as separate species.

Although the bells were destroyed again in 1941 in the Blitz, they had fallen silent on 13th June 1940 as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II.

In 1940, as World War II tore through Europe, Dalí and Gala retreated to the United States, where they lived for eight years.

In 1940, he joined the Queen's Royal Regiment as a Captain and undertook a range of staff and military teaching positions in Britain.

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.

In 1940 it was annexed by the Soviet Union, joined to the Moldavian ASSR, and became the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic until the dissolution of the USSR.

Charlie Chaplin once again joined the U. S. war effort, creating The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), in which he played the Hitler-like character of ' Adenoid Hynkel.

Showing his loyalty to France, in spite of the harsh repression, he joined the French army to fighting the German invasion in 1940.

In January 1940, Smith was sent to Berlin, where he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow.

He was captured in 1940 during the Battle of France but escaped and later joined the French Resistance.

After the German invasion in 1940 he joined the Resistance.

The pact was subsequently joined by Hungary ( 20 November 1940 ), Romania ( 23 November 1940 ), Slovakia ( 24 November 1940 ), and Bulgaria ( 1 March 1941 ).

The Tripartite Pact was subsequently joined by Hungary ( November 20, 1940 ), Romania ( November 23, 1940 ), Slovakia ( November 24, 1940 ), Bulgaria ( March 1, 1941, prior to the arrival of German troops ), Yugoslavia ( March 25, 1941 ), and Croatia ( June 15, 1941 ).

After Germany and Italy awarded parts of Transylvania back to Hungary and southern Dobruja back to Bulgaria and after the Soviet Union had taken Bessarabia, the Fascist Iron Guard party came to power and Romania joined the Tripartite Pact on November 23, 1940.

Slovakia joined the Tripartite Pact on 24 November 1940.

Troughton had joined the Tonbridge Repertory Company in 1939 and in 1940 joined the Royal Navy.

In 1940 he joined the Army, but because of a hearing loss, he was confined to staff work.

In 1940, he joined Will Eisner's studio, where he wrote and drew for the Quality Comics line.

He joined the Dutch Diplomatic Service in 1938 and after a two year assignment at the Private Office of the Foreign Minister he was appointed as attaché in Bern ( Switzerland ) in 1940 and in late 1941 he moved to Lisbon ( Portugal ).

He joined the Indochinese Communist Party in 1940 and then continued to take part in activities led by Ho Chi Minh.

On his return to London in 1920 he joined the family firm Macmillan Publishers as a junior partner, remaining with the company until his appointment to ministerial office in 1940.

The same thing was created by Jean-Baptiste Lebas in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( administratively joined with Belgium ) in January 1941 following a previous network created in September 1940.

In 1940 and in the aftermath of Dunkirk, Churchill's interest was caught again by the idea of taking the fight back to Europe-the airborne was now a means ' to be able to storm a series of water obstacles ... everywhere from the Channel to the Mediterranean and in the East '.

In 1949, Churchill's comments about the events of May 1940 were published in Le Soir ( 12 February 1949 ).

From early December 1940 to February 1941, during Operation Compass, the exploits of the Western Desert Force earned a parody of Winston Churchill's famous quote, " Never has so much been owed by so many, to so few.

Notwithstanding their disagreement, Trenchard and Churchill remained on good terms and on Churchill's 66th birthday ( 30 November 1940 ) they took lunch at Chequers.

In May 1940 he refused a position in Winston Churchill's Coalition Government in the Ministry of Food.

Dill, aware of Churchill's intentions, approved Clarke's proposal and on 23 June 1940, the first commando raid took place.

In his acceptance speech at Stockholm, he borrowed Winston Churchill's famous 1940 speech to the House of Commons and remarked, " never have I received so much for so little ".

He became Parliamentary Secretary and official Censor at the Ministry of Information in Churchill's 1940 wartime government of national unity, serving under Cabinet member Duff Cooper for approximately a year until he was asked by Churchill to leave his position ; thereafter he was a well-respected backbencher, especially on foreign policy issues given his early and prominent diplomatic career.

With questions concerning overseas deployment resolved, the division's respective commands were formed in May and June 1940, and at British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's request, the division was deployed to the United Kingdom between 1 August and 25 December 1940.

He was generally seen as ineffectual, but in May 1940 he emerged as Churchill's strongest and most vocal supporter in the lengthy War Cabinet debates on whether to accept or reject a peace offer from Germany.

On Winston Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940, Hoare lost his Cabinet position, and was, after some months of unemployment, sent as Ambassador to Spain, with his wife Lady Maud Hoare.

Churchill's brief 1945 " Caretaker Government " also called itself a National Government and in terms of party composition was very similar to the 1931 – 1940 entity.

Zetland's term as Secretary of State — and the experiment with democracy represented by the 1935 Act — came to an end with Churchill's assumption of the Prime Ministership in 1940: Zetland then offered his resignation, feeling that his ideas and Churchill's regarding India were so different that " I could only end by becoming an embarrassment to him.

Analysis of voice patterns in 20 of Churchill's recorded speeches show that three made in May and June 1940 do not match those provably by him, although Churchill might have recorded them after his voice had changed.

He became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster when Chamberlain was succeeded by Winston Churchill in May 1940, but was left out of Churchill's War Cabinet.

He entered Winston Churchill's war coalition as President of the Board of Trade in 1940, a post he held until 1941, and then served as Minister of State in the Middle East from 1941 to 1942 and as Minister of Production from 1942 to 1945.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds in the lyric " through wars of worlds / invaded by Mars ", and Winston Churchill's 18 June 1940 " This was their finest hour " speech from the House of Commons, in the lyric " You've yet to have your finest hour ".

** Churchill's second-in-command was Sir Archibald Sinclair, later made Secretary of State for Air in 1940 as part of Churchill's coalition government.

Following Winston Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister, Churchill visited the Cabinet Room in May 1940 and declared: ' This is the room from which I will direct the war '.

The Cabinet War Rooms office-bedroom of Brendan Bracken, Churchill's Ministry of Information ( United Kingdom ) | Minister of Information. On 22 October 1940, during the Blitz bombing campaign against Britain, it was decided to increase the protection of the Cabinet War Rooms by the installation of a massive layer of concrete known as ' the Slab '.

The title of the film is that of the first volume of Churchill's largely autobiographical six-volume history of the war, which covered the period from 1919 to 10 May 1940, the day he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.