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March 15, 1939 (Wednesday) Adolf Hitler and Emil Hácha met in the Reich Chancellery after midnight. Hitler announced that the German army had orders to invade Czechoslovakia at 6:00 a.m. and unless Hácha ordered the Czechoslovakian military to refrain from offering any resistance, the country would face massive destruction.
Rudolf Beran (28 December 1887 – 23 April 1954) was a Czechoslovak politician who served as prime minister of the country before its occupation by Nazi Germany and shortly thereafter, before it was declared a protectorate. A leader of the Agrarian Party from 1933, he was appointed prime minister by President Emil Hácha on 1 December 1938.
The Kriegsmarine is given the first priority on the allotment of German economic resources. Hitler's prophecy speech in the Reichstag, 30 January 1939. 30 January – Hitler gives a speech before the Reichstag calling for an "export battle" to increase German foreign exchange holdings. The same speech also sees Hitler's "prophecy" where he ...
November. November 4 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act of 1939 into law. [7] The arms embargo previously put into place by the Neutrality Act of 1937 is lifted and put any trade with nations engaged in war under cash-and-carry grounds. [9] American ships and planes are prohibited as part of the Act ...
1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1939th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 939th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1930s decade.
November 1, 1939 (Wednesday) Chinese forces launched the Winter Offensive on multiple fronts against the Imperial Japanese Army. A royal decree in the Netherlands established martial law in key regions mostly along the German-Dutch border. [1] Born: Barbara Bosson, actress, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania (d. 2023) Died: Kálmán Darányi, 53, Prime ...