WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1940
Find out what all happened June to August 1940

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

World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red"). (5. June 1940)

Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union. (28. June 1940)

World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. (12. June 1940)

In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day. (20. August 1940)

Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor. (26. August 1940)

World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia. (5. August 1940)

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

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

World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom. (10. June 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)

Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. (2. July 1940)

World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris. (3. June 1940)

World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France. (20. June 1940)

World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich. (7. August 1940)

An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October. (15. 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)

World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. (26. June 1940)

The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union. (17. June 1940)