18th March » World War II: Axis Powers Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.16th March » First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.13th March » The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated. 12th March » Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) or Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.5th March » Six high-ranking members of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Soviet politburo, including General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execu.3rd March » Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the Left Party (Sweden) named communist newspaper 'Norrskensflamman' in Luleå, Sweden.29th February » Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.29th February » For her role as Mammy in 'Gone with the Wind (film) known as Gone with the Wind', Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

27th February » Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.16th February » World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS or Cossack.10th February » The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union e.g occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.7th February » The second full length animated Walt Disney film, 'Pinocchio (1940 film) known as Pinocchio', premieres.

29th January » Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station.

8th January » World War II: Britain Rationing in the United Kingdom called introduces food rationing.

7th January » Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division Battle of Raate Road named stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.

5th January » FM broadcasting e.g FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.

Battle of raate road