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1940: A SUMMARY OF THE YEAR
Mid-Feb: Soviets breach the Mannerheim line in Finland with 45 divsions.
March 12: Russo-Finnish treaty signed in Moscow.Finland cedes parts of
Lapland to Soviet Union.
Winter 39/40: Period of quite on Western front termed the `Phony War`.
March 20: French Prime Minister, Daladier resigns to be succeeded by
Paul Reynaud.
April 3: Churchill becomes Chairman of the British Government`s Military
Committee.
April 9: To forstall British in Norway,Hitler invades Norway and Denmark.
Germans take Narvik,Stavanger,Bergen and Trondheim.
April 10: British and German destroyers clash at Narvik.
May 10: Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister.
May 10: Germans launch `Case Yellow` - the attack on Holland,Belgium
and France.German panzers push through the Ardennes and
Luxembourg.
May 11: German airborne forces capture Fort Eben-Emael.
May 11: German armour reaches the Meuse River.
May 14: Rotterdam is heavily bombed .
May 15: French Army is in full retreat.
May 17: Germans enter Brussels.
May 20: General Guderian reaches Channel coast at Noyelles.
May 22: British Expeditionary force is cut off around Channel ports.
May 26: All this week, the BEF are evacualted from France by an army
of small boats - the so-called `Miracle of Dunkirk`.338,226
men are saved, though most of the arms and equipment are lost.
May 28: Belgium surrenders.
May 31: French 1st army surrenders at Lille after 4-day siege.
June 8: King Haakon and Norwegian government along with 24,000 allied
troops are evacuated to Britain.
June 9: Field Marshall von Runstedt`s Army Group A enters campaign
against France.
June 10: Italians declare war on Britain and France.
June 14: Germans enter Paris.
June 15: Germans capture Verdun.30,600 British troops evacuated from
Cherbourg.
June 16: Petain forms new French government.
June 17: France asks for an armistice.
June 22: Armistice is signed at Compiegne.
June 30: U-boat offensive stepped up as Battle of the Atlantic
gets under way.
June 30: German troops occupy the Channel Islands.
July 3: British sink French Vichy ships at Mers-el-Kebir.
July 6 - August 2: Five British submarines sunk off Norwegian coast.
July 10: Luftwaffe begins air operations against England, culminating
throughout August,September and October with the Battle of
Britain.
Aug 13: `Eagle Day` - main attacks by Luftwaffe start against Britain.
Sept 7: Start of the London `Blitz`.
Sept 13: Italians invade Egypt.
Sept 16: Italians occupy Sidi Barrani.
November: 12,696 civilians in London area have been killed during the
Blitz and 20,000 injured. 36,000 bombs have fallen on the
Capital.
Dec 9: Italians defeated by Wavell at Sidi Barrani.