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

Mussolini was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity to carry out a long war with France or the United Kingdom and waited until France was on the verge of imminent collapse and surrender from German invasion before declaring war on France and the United Kingdom on 10 June 1940, on the assumption that the war would be short-lived following France's collapse.

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.

The dramatically visible, rhythmic twisting that resulted in the 1940 collapse of " Galloping Gertie ," the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, has sometimes been characterized in physics textbooks as a classical example of resonance.

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.

In 1930, when presenting his final masterwork ( The Lamentation of Dr Faust ), he confesses the pact he had made: madness and syphilis now overcome him, and he suffers a slow and total collapse until his death in 1940.

When Kyrgyzstan became independent following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, there was a popular idea among some Kyrgyz people to make transition to the Latin alphabet ( taking in mind a version closer to the Turkish alphabet, not the original alphabet of 1928 – 1940 ), but the plan was never implemented.

Employment at the facility sustained a population of 27, 023 in 1940. Aliquippa Station | P & LE Station The mill closed during the collapse of the steel industry during the 1980s.

Because of the collapse of the anthracite coal industry, the town's population, 15, 507 in 1940, would decline to 5, 951 by the year 2010.

This was Ammann's first long span job after 1940, which saw the collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge in Washington State.

Operation Ariel ( sometimes Operation Aerial ) was the name given to the World War II evacuation of Allied forces from ports in western France, from 15 – 25 June 1940, following the military collapse in the Battle of France against Nazi Germany.

The demoralised Left fell apart and was unable to resist the collapse of the French Third Republic after the military defeat of 1940.

After the collapse of France in June 1940, Spain adopted a pro-Axis non-belligerency stance ( for example, it offered Spanish naval facilities to German ships ), and returned escaping Allied servicemen and fleeing resistance fighters to the Nazis, returning the favour paid by the Nazis when they had contributed forces including the Stuka dive bombers to support Franco and the Nationalists during the Civil War.

His three sons returned to France to fight when World War II broke out, while he fulminated at his country's ' spiritual exhaustion ' which he saw as the root of its collapse in 1940.

However French and British tanks were at a disadvantage compared to the air supported German armoured assaults, and a lack of armoured support contributed significantly to the rapid Allied collapse in 1940.

After the collapse of these negotiations, Terboven on 25 September 1940 proclaimed the deposition of King Haakon VII and his cabinet-in-exile and outlawed all political parties except the Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling.

The year 1940 saw the collapse of Carol II's regime.

The Allied collapse in May 1940 prevented her evacuation from France and she remained there until the summer of 1941 when she escaped to England via Spain and Portugal.

In the summer of 1940 several thousands of Polish soldiers were stationed here, having been evacuated after the collapse of France.

During the Second World War the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade was a military unit initially formed from approximately 1, 500 Dutch troops, including a small group guarding German prisoners-of-war, who arrived in the United Kingdom in May 1940 following the collapse of the Netherlands.

Other historians have contended that Goerdeler's information about German economic problems was correct, and have pointed to the fact that only massive Soviet economic support, combined with plundering occupied lands, saved the German economy from collapse in the winter of 1939 – 1940.

During this period, until the collapse of France in June 1940, ultimately 83 percent of the Enigma keys that were found, were solved at Bletchley Park, the remaining 17 percent at PC Bruno.

After the capitulation of the Belgian Army in 1940, he issued a manifesto to POB's members, welcoming the German occupation as a field of neutralist action during the war: " For the working classes and for socialism, this collapse of a decrepit world, far from being a disaster, is a deliverance.

He also kept, grew and distributed the original mould for twelve years, and continued until 1940 to try to get help from any chemist who had enough skill to make penicillin.

In October 1940, Gandhi and Nehru, abandoning their original stand of supporting Britain, decided to launch a limited civil disobedience campaign in which leading advocates of Indian independence were selected to participate one by one.

The original line construction did not cover the area chosen by the Germans for their first challenge, which was through the Ardennes in 1940, a plan known as Fall Gelb.

* 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

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.

The most famous of these was the opening of the original Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge in mid 1940, which failed spectacularly 4 months later during a sustained 67 km / h crosswind and became known as Galloping Gertie for its flutter movement.

The international exhibition in New York City in 1939 – 1940 presented a departure from the original focus of the expositions.

Among the most notable are Jumbo ( 1935 ), On Your Toes ( 1936, which included the ballet " Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ", choreographed by George Balanchine ), Babes in Arms ( 1937 ), I Married an Angel ( 1938 ), The Boys from Syracuse ( 1938 ), Pal Joey ( 1940 ), and their last original work, By Jupiter ( 1942 ).

Early on during Asimov's original world-building of the Foundation universe, he established within the first published stories a chronology placing the tales approximately 50, 000 years into the future from the time they were written ( c. 1940 ).

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood, Chaplin ’ s 1940 New York Times defense of his movie, a reprint from critic Jean Narboni on the film ’ s final speech, and Al Hirschfeld ’ s original press book illustrations.

The original wooden stock, consisting of 11 motor and 11 trailer carriages, built by Jackson and Sharp of Wilmington, Delaware, USA, using Siemens electrical motors and control equipment, was used until 1940.

The original rolling stock was replaced in 1940 by electric multiple units manufactured by the English Electric company.

The original logo of the CBC, designed by École des Beaux Arts student Hortense Binette and used between 1940 and 1958, featured a map of Canada ( and from 1940 to 1949, the Dominion of Newfoundland ) and a thunderbolt design used to symbolize broadcasting.

It is now CBC / Radio-Canada's longest-used logo, surpassing the original incarnation of the Gem logo and the CBC's 1940 logo.

* Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge that collapsed in 1940

After becoming an editor at Lev Gleason and revamping Jack Binder's original Golden Age Daredevil in 1940, Cole hired on at Quality Comics.

The War Requiem, first performed on 30 May 1962, was commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid on the night of 14 November 1940.

The Martinstor, one of the original city City gate | gates in FreiburgOn October 22, 1940, the Nazi Gauleiter of Baden ordered the deportation of all of Baden's Jews, and 350 Jewish citizens of Freiburg were deported to the southern French internment camp of Camp Gurs in the Basses-Pyrénées.

O ' Brian published very little under his original name of Russ during World War II, and nothing after 1940.

Parsons, a science fiction fan, had read in the fantasy pulp magazine Unknown the 1940 original shorter version of Jack Williamson " Darker Than You Think ".

Salem School has undergone many additions since its original construction in 1940.

The Old Hodgkins Village Hall & Fire Station was erected in 1940 to replace the original which was destroyed by fire.