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Timeline of World War II - 1940 |  | Timeline of World War II - 1940: Encyclopedia II - Timeline of World War II - 1940 |  | |
Timeline of World War II - January.
1: Conscription extended in Britain: all men between 20 and 27 now liable.
4: Hermann Göring placed in charge of German war industries.
5: British cabinet is revised: Oliver Stanley takes over War Office, Lord Reith becomes Minister of Information, and Sir Andrew Duncan takes over Board of Trade.
7: General Semyon Timoshenko placed in command of Soviet troops against Finland.
8: Bacon, butter, and sugar rationing begins in Britain.See also: Timeline of World War II, Timeline of World War II - 1939, Timeline of World War II - September, Timeline of World War II - October, Timeline of World War II - November, Timeline of World War II - December, Timeline of World War II - 1940, Timeline of World War II - January, Timeline of World War II - February, Timeline of World War II - March, Timeline of World War II - April, Timeline of World War II - May, Timeline of World War II - June, Timeline of World War II - July, Timeline of World War II - August, Timeline of World War II - September, Timeline of World War II - October, Timeline of World War II - November, Timeline of World War II - December, Timeline of World War II - 1941, Timeline of World War II - January, Timeline of World War II - February, Timeline of World War II - March, Timeline of World War II - April, Timeline of World War II - May, Timeline of World War II - June, Timeline of World War II - July, Timeline of World War II - August, Timeline of World War II - September, Timeline of World War II - October, Timeline of World War II - November, Timeline of World War II - December, Timeline of World War II - 1942, Timeline of World War II - January, Timeline of World War II - February, Timeline of World War II - March, Timeline of World War II - April, Timeline of World War II - May, Timeline of World War II - June, Timeline of World War II - July, Timeline of World War II - August, Timeline of World War II - September, Timeline of World War II - October, Timeline of World War II - November, Timeline of World War II - December, Timeline of World War II - 1943, Timeline of World War II - January, Timeline of World War II - February, Timeline of World War II - April, Timeline of World War II - May, Timeline of World War II - July, Timeline of World War II - August, Timeline of World War II - September, Timeline of World War II - October, Timeline of World War II - November, Timeline of World War II - December, Timeline of World War II - 1944, Timeline of World War II - January, Timeline of World War II - February, Timeline of World War II - March, Timeline of World War II - April, Timeline of World War II - May, Timeline of World War II - June, Timeline of World War II - July, Timeline of World War II - August, Timeline of World War II - September, Timeline of World War II - October, Timeline of World War II - November, Timeline of World War II - December, Timeline of World War II - 1945, Timeline of World War II - January, Timeline of World War II - February, Timeline of World War II - March, Timeline of World War II - April, Timeline of World War II - May, Timeline of World War II - June, Timeline of World War II - July, Timeline of World War II - August, Timeline of World War II - September, Timeline of World War II - External link |  | | Timeline of World War II, Timeline of World War II - 1939, Timeline of World War II - 1940, Timeline of World War II - 1941, Timeline of World War II - 1942, Timeline of World War II - 1943, Timeline of World War II - 1944, Timeline of World War II - 1945, Timeline of World War II - April, Timeline of World War II - August, Timeline of World War II - December, Timeline of World War II - External link, Timeline of World War II - February, Timeline of World War II - January, Timeline of World War II - July, Timeline of World War II - June, Timeline of World War II - March, Timeline of World War II - May, Timeline of World War II - November, Timeline of World War II - October, Timeline of World War II - September, Timeline of events preceding World War II, Timeline of campaigns and battles of World War II, Timeline of politics of World War II, Timeline of the First World War, Timeline of the WWII Eastern Front |  | |
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Timeline of World War II - 1940
Timeline of World War II - January
1: Conscription extended in Britain: all men between 20 and 27 now liable.
4: Hermann Göring placed in charge of German war industries.
5: British cabinet is revised: Oliver Stanley takes over War Office, Lord Reith becomes Minister of Information, and Sir Andrew Duncan takes over Board of Trade.
7: General Semyon Timoshenko placed in command of Soviet troops against Finland.
8: Bacon, butter, and sugar rationing begins in Britain.
10: The Maasmechelen Incident: two German officers crash-land in Vucht close by the city Maasmechelen in Belgium, carrying copies of the planned invasion of France (operation Fall Gelb). This incident leads to a postponement and revision of the invasion.
11: Meat rationing begins in France.
14: Japanese Prime Minister Abe Nobuyuki and his cabinet resign and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai is named as Prime Minister.
Timeline of World War II - February
1: Japanese Diet announces record high budget with over half its expenditures being military.
5: Britain and France decide to intervene in Norway to cut off the iron ore trade — in anticipation of an expected German occupation and ostensibly to open a route to assist Finland. The operation is scheduled to start about March 20.
9: Erich von Manstein is placed in command of German XXXIII Armor Corps, removing him from planning the French invasion.
14: British government calls for volunteers to fight in Finland.
15: Soviet army captures Summa in Finland thereby breaking through the Mannerheim Line.
16: British destroyer HMS Cossack forcibly removes 299 British POWs from the German transport Altmark in neutral Norwegian territorial waters.
17: Manstein presents to Hitler his plans for invading France via the Ardennes forest.
21: General Nickolaus von Falkenhorst is placed in command of the upcoming German invasion of Norway; work begins on the construction of Auschwitz.
24: The Ardennes plan for invading the west is adopted.
Timeline of World War II - March
3: Soviets begin attacks on Viipuri, Finland's second largest city.
5: Finland tells the Soviets they will agree to their terms for ending the war.
12: Finland signs a peace treaty with the Soviet Union.
16: German air raid on Scapa Flow causes first British civilian casualties.
18: Mussolini agrees with Hitler that Italy will enter the war "at an opportune moment".
21: Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France following Daladier's resignation the previous day.
28: Britain and France make a formal agreement that neither country will seek a separate peace with Germany.
30: Japan establishes a puppet regime at Nanking under Wang Jingwei.
Timeline of World War II - April
1: Hitler gives the go ahead for the invasion of Norway and Denmark.
3: Churchill is appointed chairman of the Ministerial Defense Committee following the resignation of Lord Chatfield.
5: Chamberlain makes an ill-timed remark that Hitler has "missed the bus".
9: Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Denmark surrenders.
10: First Battle of Narvik, British destroyers and aircraft successfully make a surprise attack against a larger German naval force. A second attack on April 13 will also be a British success.
14: British and French troops begin landing in Norway.
30: British and French troops begin evacuating from Norway.
Timeline of World War II - May
5: Norwegian government in exile established in London.
9: Conscription in Britain extended to age 36.
10: Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom upon the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
11: Luxembourg occupied.
13: Dutch government in exile established in London.
14: Rotterdam is carpet bombed by the Luftwaffe.
14: The creation of the Local Defence Volunteers (the Home Guard) is announced by Anthony Eden.
15: The Netherlands surrender.
26: Operation Dynamo, the Allied evacuation from Dunkirk, begins.
28: Belgium surrenders; Germans evacuate Narvik
Timeline of World War II - June
3: Last day of Operation Dynamo. 224,686 British and 121,445 French and Belgian troops have been evacuated; Germans bomb Paris.
10: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom; Norway surrenders.
11: French government decamps to Tours.
14: Paris occupied by German troops; French government moves again, this time to Bordeaux.
16: Philippe Pétain becomes premier of France upon the resignation of Reynaud's government.
17: Sinking of liner HMT Lancastria off St Nazaire while being used as a British troopship—Britain's worst maritime disaster.
18: General De Gaulle forms the Comité Français de la Libération Nationale, a French government in exile; Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union.
21: Franco-German armistice negotiations begin at Compiegne.
22: Franco-German armistice signed.
24: France officially surrenders to Germany; Franco-Italian armistice signed.
28: General De Gaulle recognised by British as leader of Free French.
30: Germany invades the Channel Islands.
Timeline of World War II - July
1: Channel Islands completely occupied; French government moves to Vichy.
2: Hitler orders preparation of plans for invasion of Britain, code-named Operation Sealion.
4: Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir by the Royal Navy; Vichy French government breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain in protest.
5: Romania aligns itself with the Axis.
10: Battle of Britain begins.
21: Czechoslovak government in exile arrives in London.
22: The Special Operations Executive is created.
25: All women and children are ordered to evacuate Gibraltar.
Timeline of World War II - August
2: General De Gaulle sentenced to death in absentia by a French military court.
4: Italian forces invade British Somaliland.
17: Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles.
19: Italians take Berbera, capital of British Somaliland.
25: First British air raid on Berlin.
Timeline of World War II - September
3: Operation Sealion set for 21 September.
6: King Carol abdicates the Romanian throne in favour of his son Michael while control of the government is taken by Marshal Antonescu.
10: Operation Sealion postponed until 24 September.
13: Italy invades Egypt.
14: Operation Sealion postponed until 27 September, the last day of the month with suitable tides for the invasion.
16: Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 introduces the first peacetime conscription in United States history.
17: Hitler postpones Operation Sealion until further notice.
24: Vichy French aircraft bomb Gibraltar.
Timeline of World War II - October
7: Germany invades Romania to restrain the Romanian Army.
12: Any German invasion of Britain postponed until Spring 1941 at the earliest.
15: Clarence Addison Dykstra becomes Director of Selective Service in the United States.
16: Draft registration begins in the United States.
28: Italy issues ultimatum to Greece, Prime Minister Metaxas replies "So it is war" (celebrated as "Okhi!" ("No!") Day in Greece); Italian forces invade Greece.
Timeline of World War II - November
11: British naval forces launch attack against Italian navy at Taranto. Swordfish bombers from HMS Illustrious damage three battleships, two cruisers and multiple auxiliary craft.
20: Hungary signs the Tripartite Pact.
23: Romania signs the Tripartite Pact.
24: Slovakia signs the Tripartite Pact
Timeline of World War II - December
8: Franco rules out Spanish entry into the war.
9: British forces being Western Desert offensive against Italian forces in North Africa.
11: Greece invades Italian-held Albania.
18: Plans for Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, are confirmed.
28: Italy requests German assistance in Albania against Greek forces.
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