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Norway and Denmark invaded by Germany, April 9, 1940
Denmark falls without fight, sinks own navy in Copenhagen harbor,
April 1940
Norway falls, May 1940
Germany invades Low Countries (Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium),
May 10, 1940
Luxembourg falls, May 11, 1940
Netherlands falls, May 14, 1940
Belgium surrenders, May 28, 1940
British/French forces trapped in Belgium, 1940
USSR conquers Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, 1940
British and French troops evacuated to Great Britain at Dunkerque,
France, June 4, 1940
Italy declares war on UK and France, June 10, 1940
Paris falls to Nazis, June 14, 1940
France capitulates, forming Vichy government under Marshal Henri
Petain, June 22, 1940
German Luftwaffe bombs British RAF air bases, August, 1940
(Nazi Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler , visits the German occupied Paris,
the capital of France, June 23, 1940)
Italian forces in Ethiopia conquer British Somaliland, August,
1940
London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other British
cities bombed by Nazis, September 1940
Italian forces in Libya attack British in Egypt, September, 1940
Japanese attack French Indochina, September 22, 1940
Japan joins Axis, 1940
(London, under heavy bombing by the German Luftwaffe, 1940)
Italy invades Greece, October 28, 1940
Hungary joins the Axis, November 20, 1940
Romania joins the Axis, November 23, 1940
British attack Italian forces in Egypt, December 8, 1940
German U-Boats sink US/Canadian convoys to Britain, 1940