ONE YEAR OF WAR
Dates To Remember
f N September 3, Britain will have O been at war with Germany for a year. Here are some dates to remember: 1935 October 3: Italy invaded Abyssinia. 1936 March 7: Hitler marched into the Rhineland without opposition. July 18: Spanish Civil War began. December 10: Edward VIII abdicated. 1937 May 28: Neville Chamberlain became British Prime Minister. 1938 March 11: Hitler's forces occupied _ Austria. April 24: Henlein made eight demands for Sudeten Germans. September 29: Chamberlain flew to Munich. October 1: Hitler occupied the Sudetenland. November 23: French-German nonaggression pact signed by Ribbentrop and Bonnet. November 30: Count Ciano made Italian demands for Corsica, Nice, Tunis, Suez Canal, and Djibouti. 1939 February 27: Britain recognised General Franco’s régime in Spain. Five weeks later Spain joined the anti-Comintern powers, March 15: Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia. March 22: Hitler took Memel and signed non-aggression pact with Lithuania. March 23: Britain and France pledged armed assistance to Poland. March 24: Robert Hudson, Secretary for Overseas Trade, left for Moscow for Anglo-Soviet trade talks. April 1: Spanish war ended. April 7: Italy occupied Albania. April 13: Britain and France guaranteed the integrity of Greece and Rumania. April 26: Conscription began in Britain, Hitler denounced the Anglo-German Naval Treaty and the Polish Ten"Year Treaty. April 28: Hitler accused Britain of encircling Germany with alliances. May 3: Molotov replaced Litvinoff as ~ Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs. May 18: Norway, Sweden, and Finland ~ Tejected Germany’s offer of nonaggression treaties. Denmark accepted. June 7: Estonia and Latvia signed nonaggression pacts with Germany. June 10: William Strang, British Foreign Office, left for Moscow. August 5: British and French mission, headed by British Admiral and French General, left for Moscow. August 23: Germany and Russia signed Non-Aggression Pact. September 1: Hitler invaded Poland. September 3: Britain and France declared war on Germany. September 21: German. campaign in Poland ended, with Russia in occupation of Eastern half of Poland.
October 6: Hitler made a " peace offer." October 19: Britain, France and Turkey signed a 15-years mutual assistance pact. Turkey excepted from war with Russia. November 7: Belgian and Dutch Sovereigns offered .to mediate for peace. November 8: Munich Beer Hall explosion. November 30: Russia invaded Finland. December 13: Battle of the Plate. H.M.S. Achilles in action against Graf Spee. 1940 January 5: Hore-Belisha, British War Secretary, resigned. March 13: Finland surrendered to Russia.
March 18: Hitler and Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass. March 21: Reynaud succeeded Daladier as Prime Minister of France. April 9: Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. May 10: Germany invaded the Netherlands and Belgium. Chamberlain resigned. Churchill made Prime Minister. May 24: The Netherlands capitulated. May 27: King Leopold surrendered to the Germans over the heads of his generals and Cabinet. June 10: Norway capitulated and King Haakon fled to England. Italy entered the war. June 14: Paris fell, June 15: Russia occupied Lithuania. Spanish troops took over international zone of Tangier. — June 16: Reynaud resigned. Pétain became French Prime Minister. Russia occupied Latvia and Estonia. June 17: France surrendered,
June 18: Hitler and Mussolini met at Munich to discuss French Armistice. June 21: French signed Armistice with Germany in the Forest of Compeigne. June 23: France signed an Armistice with Italy. June 25: Fighting ceased in France. All British units withdrawn. June 30: Russia completed occupation of Rumanian Provinces of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. July 4: British Navy put ships of French Fleet out of action. July 9: Petain Government changed constitution of French Republic to a Dictatorship. July 19: Roosevelt agreed to stand for President of U.S.A, for a third terms July 22: Lord Halifax rejected Hitler’s "peace" offer. July 29: First big German air raid on Dover. August 9: Large scale German air raids over England began.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 62, 30 August 1940, Page 2
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