WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1940
Find out what all happened July to December 1940

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

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

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

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece. (18. November 1940)

An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200. (12. September 1940)

World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces. (12. November 1940)

World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. (24. November 1940)

World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy. (27. September 1940)

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

Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. (16. November 1940)

George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer. (9. September 1940)

World War II: The Battle of Britain ends – the United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion. (31. October 1940)

King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. (6. September 1940)

The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny. (27. July 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)

World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army. (22. December 1940)

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few". (20. August 1940)

World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, as a result of a German air raid. (12. December 1940)

Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. (19. September 1940)