WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JULY 1940
Find out what all happened February to July 1940

World War II: German raids on British shipping convoys and military airfields begin. (10. May 1940)

Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. (27. February 1940)

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. (10. June 1940)

World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. (26. May 1940)

The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. (10. February 1940)

Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations (29. February 1940)

The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight. (14. May 1940)

World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms. (5. May 1940)

World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne (25. May 1940)

Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei. (30. March 1940)

A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp. (14. June 1940)

Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated. (12. March 1940)

World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. (10. May 1940)

World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War. (28. May 1940)

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France. (23. June 1940)

The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany. (15. April 1940)

World War II: the Vichy government is established in France. (10. July 1940)

A Communist government is installed in Lithuania. (16. June 1940)

California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway. (20. July 1940)

For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. (29. February 1940)