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.

During World War II, continental Norway was invaded and occupied by Germany in spring 1940.

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

In the spring of 1940, the Luftwaffe assisted the Kriegsmarine and Heer in the daring invasion of Norway, Operation Weserübung.

The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's ' leadership class ', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.

Later in the spring of 1940, the Kriegsmarine became even more opposed to invading Britain after its Pyrrhic victory in Norway.

In the spring of 1940, a group of German generals seeking to overthrow Hitler and make peace with the British approached Pope Pius XII, who acted as a negotiator between the British and the abortive plot.

After a quiet period of " phoney war ", the French and British armies collapsed under German onslaught in spring 1940.

In spring of 1940, Western Europe was overrun by Nazi Germany.

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.

He was considered the early favorite for the nomination, but his support ebbed in the late spring of 1940, as World War II suddenly became much more dangerous for America.

The Swedish government realised the strategic advantage of developing an aerial camera for their own use, and in the spring of 1940 approached Victor Hasselblad to help create one.

On 28 May, Hitler called a meeting of his service chiefs where he ordered an acceleration of U-boat construction and brought forward the construction of his first two battleships, Bismarck and Tirpitz, to spring 1940, and demanded that the increase in the firepower of the pocket battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau be accelerated.

" Eighteen months later, in the spring of 1940, the Wynand Building is well on its way to completion and Dominique, now Roark's wife, enters the site to meet him atop its steel framework.

The classic 1940 – 44 version of the program, hosted by radio's Fred Allen, was followed by a radio series on ABC ( the former NBC Blue ) in the spring of 1948.

With the fall of France in spring 1940, ports such as Brest, France were quickly turned into large submarine bases from which British trade could be attacked.

In 1938, following the Anschluss, Alma and Werfel, who was Jewish, were forced to flee Austria for France ; they maintained a household in Sanary-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera, from summer 1938 until spring 1940.

In the spring of 1940 during heated Cabinet discussions as France teetered towards defeat, Halifax energetically participated in the debates for and against a recourse to total war and lone opposition to Germany, whatever the cost to Britain's long-term military and economic standing.

As the last finished piece of work from Benjamin, the Theses on the Philosophy of History ( noted above ) is often cited ; Adorno claimed this had been written in the spring of 1940, weeks before the Germans invaded France.

The public mood was changing, however, especially after the fall of France in spring 1940.

Without an official role, Trenchard took it upon himself to spend the spring of 1940 visiting many RAF units, including those of the Advanced Air Striking Force in France.

In the spring of 1940, Clyde Smith fell seriously ill after suffering a heart attack, and asked his wife to run for his House seat in the general election the following September.

But Reiser's stellar performances in spring training in both 1939 and 1940 forced the Dodgers to keep him.

The evacuation was prompted by the Wehrmachts assault on Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in the spring of 1940, which reduced the relative importance of Germany's iron ore provision, and of Scandinavia as a whole.

The word is a shortened form of " Karabinerhaken ", German for " spring hook for a carbine ".

The German opposition was in an unenviable position by the late spring and early summer of 1943.

In the spring of 1941, Ribbentrop appointed an assemblage of SA men to German embassies in Eastern Europe, with Manfred von Killinger going to Romania, Siegfried Kasche to Croatia, Adolf Beckerle to Bulgaria, Dietrich von Jagow to Hungary, and Hans Ludin to Slovakia.

In the spring of 1218 the Fifth Crusade began in earnest when German crusader fleets landed at Acre.

In the spring of 839, Louis the German invaded Swabia, Pepin II and his Gascon subjects fought all the way to the Loire, and the Danes returned to ravage the Frisian coast ( sacking Dorstad for a second time ).

In return the Oeselians raided the territories in Latvia that were under German rule the following spring.

Then, in the spring of 1941, the German Army and the Finnish Army invaded the Soviet Union together.

The German spring offensives of 1918 failed, and with gthe arrival of the American in summer at the rate of 10, 000 a day the Germans realized they were being overwhelmed.

In the Gallipoli Campaign in the spring of 1915 in the eastern Mediterranean, German U-boats, notably the U-21, prevented close support of allied troops by 18 pre-Dreadnought battleships by sinking two of them.

Since the spring of 1945 the Poles had been forcefully expelling the remaining German population in these provinces in a program of ethnic cleansing.

Frege matriculated at the University of Jena in the spring of 1869 as a citizen of the North German Federation.

It is built near the site of the previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.

The earliest portrayers of the local landscape include Emanuel Thelning, a Swede sent to Kangasala by baron Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt after he himself had visited the healing spring of Kuohu in 1811 and the German Carl von Kügelgen, royal painter of Alexander I, who painted at least three paintings representing Kangasala.

German foreign intelligence gathering, large-scale Allied trench raids and observed troop concentrations west of Arras made it clear to the Germans that a spring offensive near Arras was being planned.

In the spring of his term, he set out for the German border once more.

The Affiche Rouge ( red placard ) is a famous propaganda poster that was distributed by the Vichy France | Vichy French and German authorities in the spring of 1944 in Military history of France during World War II | occupied Paris.

From spring 1943, German and Austrian anti-fascists, who had fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, fought in Lozère and in the Cévennes alongside the French Résistance in the Francs-tireurs et Partisans.

* Herwig, Holger H. Operation Michael: The “ Last Card ” ( 2001 ), German spring offensive in 1918

The Liberal Party finally split openly during the Maurice Debate in 1918, at which Lloyd George was accused ( almost certainly correctly ) of hoarding manpower in the UK to prevent Haig from launching any fresh offensives ( e. g. Passchendaele, 1917 ), possibly with a view to sending more troops to Palestine or Italy instead, and thus contributing to Allied weakness during the temporarily successful German offensives of spring 1918, in which British casualties were actually heavier than in their own offensives the previous year.

In the spring of 1776, 10, 000 British and German troops arrived in Quebec, and General Guy Carleton, the provincial governor, drove the Continental Army out of Quebec and back to Fort Ticonderoga.

In the spring of 1772, near the present site of New Philadelphia, Ohio, Zeisberger, along with five converted Indian families established the mission of Schoenbrunn ( German for ' beautiful spring ').