It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

* 1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station.

In October 1940, Gauleiters Josef Bürckel and Robert Wagner oversaw the almost total expulsion of the Jews into unoccupied France not only from the parts of Alsace-Lorraine that had been annexed that summer to the Reich, but also from their Gaues as while.

Schwitters started a second Merzbau while in exile in Lysaker nearby Oslo, Norway in 1937 but abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded ; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951.

From 1940 to 1960, the city more than doubled its physical size, while increasing its population by only about 75, 000.

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.

Chippewa baby waits on a cradleboard while parents tend rice crops ( Minnesota, 1940 ).

One of the most popular, Der Fuehrer's Face ( 1940 ) was a means of relieving the aggression against Hitler by making him a somewhat comical figure while showcasing the freedom America offered.

However, it can also be noted that while retaining government on each occasion, Menzies lost the two-party-preferred vote in 1940, 1954, and 1961.

The reduction in distortion and noise provided by AC bias was rediscovered in 1940 by Walter Weber ( 1907 – 1944 ), while working for Hans Joachim von Braunmühl at the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft ( RRG ).

Williams said that the " only real fun " he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York.

Infant, child, and maternity services were expanded, while the Official Food Policy Committee ( chaired by the deputy PM and Labour leader Clement Attlee ) approved grants of fuel and subsidised milk to mothers and to children under the age of five in June 1940.

Food prices were stabilised in December 1939, initially as temporary measure, but made permanent in August 1940, while both milk and meals were provided at subsidised prices, or free in those cases of real need.

By 1945, roughly 33 % of all children ate at school compared with one in thirty in 1940, while those taking milk increased from about 50 % to roughly 75 %.

In 1940, only one-third of radio programs were sponsored, while two-thirds were sustaining ; by mid-decade, the statistics had swapped — now two out of three shows had cash-paying sponsors and only one-third were sustaining.

The areas allotted to the Ukrainian SSR in 1940 became part of the new independent Ukraine since 1991, while the area roughly corresponding to Transnistria became the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic separate from the government of the Republic of Moldova.

In September 1940 with the return of Southern Dobruja ( the Cadrilater ) by Romania to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova, 80, 000 Romanians were compelled to move north of the border, while 65, 000 Bulgarians living in Northern Dobruja were forced to move into Bulgaria.

On June 14, 1940, while the world's attention was focused on the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany a day earlier, the Soviet military blockade of Estonia went into effect, and two Soviet bombers downed Finnish passenger airplane " Kaleva " flying from Tallinn to Helsinki carrying three diplomatic pouches from the U. S. legations in Tallinn, Riga and Helsinki.

Following the collapse of the last Sumerian " Ur-III " dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites, another Semitic people, gradually gained control over most of southern Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms, while the Assyrians reasserted their independence in the north.

Godthaab became the seat of government for the Danish colony of South Greenland, while Godhavn ( modern Qeqertarsuaq ) was the capital of North Greenland until 1940 when the administration was unified in Godthaab.

Saarinen first received critical recognition, while still working for his father, for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the " Organic Design in Home Furnishings " competition in 1940, for which they received first prize.

The love affair with Dietrich began in September 1937 when they met on the Lido while in Venice for the Film Festival and continued through at least 1940, maintained mostly by way of letters, cables, and telephone calls.

All This and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) was the most financially successful film of Davis's career to that point, while The Letter ( 1940 ) was considered " one of the best pictures of the year " by The Hollywood Reporter, and Davis won admiration for her portrayal of an adulterous killer, a role originated by famed actress Katharine Cornell.

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.

After the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir in 1940, where the British fleet destroyed a large part of the French navy, still under command of Vichy France, that killed about 1, 100 sailors, there was nationwide indignation and a feeling of distrust in the French forces, leading to the events of the Battle of Dakar.

However, even by the spring of 1940, the Luftwaffe still had not mobilized fully.

The Economy Run originated with the Gilmore Oil Company of California in 1936 ( which was purchased by Socony-Vacuum in 1940 ) and later became the Mobilgas Economy Run and still later, the Mobil Economy Run.

1940 was at the very end of the era of the light tank, and the German behemoths of the later war years were still in the future: many tanks were surprisingly vulnerable.

Dewey had won most of the presidential primaries in the spring of 1940, and he came into the GOP Convention in June with the largest number of delegate votes, although he was still well below the number needed to win.

In 1940 bound books began appearing without the ghost word but with a new abbreviation ( although inspection of printed copies well into the 1940s show " dord " still present ).

During 1938 – 1940, society was still relatively free, but during 1941, most of the free newspapers, magazines, and publishers were shut down, and authors were silenced.

At a meeting with Hitler on 26 March 1940, Raeder stated he still believed in Weserübung, and wished it to be started as soon as possible.

At the start of 1940 he was still a first lieutenant but, beginning in 1941, began to receive temporary advancement in grade in the expanding Army Air Forces.

While the French army has not included any grenadiers since 1870, the grenade badge is still a distinctive mark of the Foreign Legion, the National Gendarmerie and the French Customs which was a military unit until 1940.

As a result, there was no trial, and Grynszpan was still in prison when the invading German Army approached Paris in June 1940.

In 1940 due to general Soviet policy, a Cyrillic alphabet eventually became common and has remained so to this day, though some Kyrgyz still use the Arabic alphabet.

* In the Peak District of England, a population was established in around 1940 by five escapees from a local zoo, and as of late March 2009 sightings were still being made in the area.

This line was last used on June 9, 1940, the last day of streetcar service in Houston ; the replacement is still operated by METRO as the 40 along Telephone Road.

Peak production came in November 1925, and by 1940 a well in Section 18, T22N, R3W still held a state record for initial production,.

By 1940, agriculture was still a major industry, and the timber industry was growing in importance to the local economy.

The bank even survived the Great Depression — while deposits declined, in 1940 they were still a respectable $ 4, 720, 702.

At the end of 1936, the George F. Lee Coal Co. still worked both the Chauncey mine and breaker, producing 38, 712 tons of coal, but by 1940, the company was bankrupt and in receivership.

The Boswell tipple was dismantled in 1940, though some of the tipple's abutments still stand today.

The Gibson County Electric Membership Corporation which still serves Trenton, in 1940

The town still appears as Fallbridge in 1940 U. S. Army.

It was taken down from the most symbolic location, the tower of Pikk Hermann in Tallinn, on June 21, 1940 when Estonia was still formally independent.

The synthesis of genetic and population ideas produced a consensus which reigned in biology from about 1940, and which is still broadly tenable.

In May 1941 its aircraft situation was only marginally better than a year before: only 22 P-26 fighters, 12 " utterly obsolete, ancient, vulnerable as pumpkins " B-10s, 56 Seversky P-35As diverted from a sale to Sweden in November 1940, 18 Douglas B-18 Bolos still in crates after disassembly and shipment from the Hawaiian Department in March, nine North American A-27s seized in January from a shipment intended for Siam and distributed to the pursuit squadrons as instrument trainers, several Douglas C-39 transports, and a small number of varied observation planes.