By the late 1930s and the 1940s, Italian Fascism completely denounced capitalism as an obsolete and oppressive system, Mussolini in 1940 at the entry of Italy into World War II, said:

On June 14, 1940, the day Paris was declared an open city by the French and occupied by German troops, Riefenstahl wrote to Hitler in a telegram, “ With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris.

Stalin did not know that Hitler had been secretly discussing an invasion of the Soviet Union since summer 1940, and that Hitler had ordered his military in late 1940 to prepare for war in the east regardless of the parties ' talks of a potential Soviet entry as a fourth Axis Power.

The 1940 race, run three months prior to the entry of The Netherlands to World War II, saw over 3, 000 competitors start at 05: 00 on 30 January, with the first five finishing at 16: 34.

* Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, enacted September 16, 1940, in preparation for the American entry into World War II

After the fall of France in mid 1940 and Italian entry into the war on the Axis side, Britain and her commonwealth allies found themselves alone against most of Europe.

Behind the scenes the Irish state worked with the Allies ; in 1940, the government agreed provisionally with Britain that it would accept the entry of British troops and put its own armed forces under their command should the Germans invade Ireland-see Plan W. There was a provisional German plan for an invasion of Ireland, known as Operation Green, but it was never carried out.

Adolf Hitler met Franco in Hendaye, France ( 23 October 1940 ), to discuss the Spanish entry in the war joining the Axis.

However, in 1940, a Spanish Stalin supporter by the name of Ramón Mercader managed to gain entry to the house and to kill Trotsky with an ice pick.

Finally, in 1940, Lippert argued with Albert Speer over the organization of Berlin, leading to his dismissal on the orders of Adolf Hitler, who had become increasingly hostile to him, writing in a journal entry, “ Lippert is an incompetent, an idiot, a failure, a zero .”

However, the fall of France provided the German occupying forces with access to the French Atlantic coast, and between 1940 and 1942, many blockade running trips succeeded in delivering cargoes of critical war supplies-especially crude rubber-through the port of Bordeaux ; a trade that increased with the entry of Japan into the war in December 1941.

On 10 June 1940, the entry of Italy into the war introduced a new threat to the oil supply routes from the Persian Gulf, which passed through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.

It also may be seen applied and as recently as 1940 in Pope's National Gallery in Washington D. C., where the public entry to the world of high culture occupies the exalted center position.

* The German Luftwaffes chief of intelligence, Colonel Josef " Beppo " Schmid, reports that the British Royal Air Force and French Air Force are " clearly inferior in strength and armament in comparison to the Luftwaffe ," that even an entry into World War II by the United States would not alone improve the status of Allied air power during 1940, and that British fighters stood little chance in combat with the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engine fighter.

*-The shore establishment of this name was formed in 1940 as an entry camp for new recruits.

It was used again by the Army in the mobilization of 1940 that preceded the American entry into World War II and later housed a convalescent and rehabilitation hospital.

The entry in the London Gazette concerning his Victoria Cross appeared in a supplement on 23 August 1940.

Stalin did not know that Hitler had been secretly discussing an invasion of the Soviet Union since the summer of 1940, and that Hitler had ordered his military in late 1940 to prepare for war in the east regardless of the parties talks of a potential Soviet entry as a fourth Axis Power.

The property now called Plant 42 was first activated as an emergency air landing strip in 1940 prior to the entry of the United States in World War II.

Following the fall of France in 1940, Britain had no other means of carrying the war to Germany and after the entry of the Soviet Union into the war in 1941, bombing Germany was the only contribution Britain could make to meet Joseph Stalin's demands for action to open up a second front.

In January 1940 the Wakehursts helped to fight bushfires near Moss Vale and heavily involved themselves towards the war effort following Australia's entry into the Second World War, giving regular speeches and rallying people to contribute towards the war effort.

The western leg was completed in 1940, but further construction on the beltway was halted with the United States ' entry into World War II.

Whether there were too few automobiles in 1940 or too many now is problematical.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.

* 1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.

* 1940 – The " Aufbau Ost " directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.

Between 1940 and 1990, Phoenix jumped from the 99th largest city in the nation to the 9th largest ( it is currently the 6th largest ).

Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

The Bliss bibliographic classification ( BC ) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.

The contributions of Kurt Gödel in 1940 and Paul Cohen in 1963 showed that the hypothesis can neither be disproved nor be proved using the axioms of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory, the standard foundation of modern mathematics, provided ZF set theory is consistent.

Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads ( 1940 ) is considered to be the first concept album.

* 1940 – World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.

Because of the association with Hakkō ichiu, the Kigensetsu celebration of 1940 is today considered controversial.

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 ".

Enrico Bombieri ( born 26 November 1940 in Milan, Italy ) is a mathematician who has been working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".

The film now most commonly cited as the first " true " film noir is Stranger on the Third Floor ( 1940 ), directed by Latvian-born, Soviet-trained Boris Ingster.

* 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time ( Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden ).

* 1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

Hans Rudolf " Ruedi " Giger (; born February 5, 1940 ) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer.

His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also responsible for other well-known comic book series such as Quick & Flupke ( 1930 – 1940 ) and Jo, Zette and Jocko ( 1936 – 1957 ).

Because of these regulatory restrictions on ownership, hedge funds have been exempted from mandatory registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which is generally intended to regulate investment funds sold to retail investors.

This regulation is set out under Section 205 ( b ) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which limits performance fees to so-called " fulcrum fees ".

However, iron gall ink is corrosive and damages the paper it is on ( Waters 1940 ).