WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 1940
Find out what all happened March to August 1940

General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal. (25. July 1940)

World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces. (10. June 1940)

The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary. (30. August 1940)

Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938. (31. August 1940)

Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle. (18. June 1940)

World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive. (27. May 1940)

Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway. (9. April 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)

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

World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français). (16. June 1940)

The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. (20. May 1940)

The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (23. July 1940)

USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus. (15. May 1940)

World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed; Britain's worst maritime disaster. (17. June 1940)

World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation. (15. May 1940)

World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35. (25. June 1940)

John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. (6. May 1940)

Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp. (7. April 1940)

"Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill. (18. June 1940)