November 5, 1940

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November 5, 1940

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Post by Globalization41 » 21 Dec 2014, 04:18

11/5/1940, F.D.R. & Willkie Both predict Victory on Eve of Election, Roosevelt Going for Unprecedented Third Term

11/5/1940, Britain's Minister for Economic Warfare (Mr. Foot) Outlines Hitler's New Order for Europe

11/5/1940, British Public Keen to Learn Truth About Middle East, Will There Be Another Dunkerque?

Note: The British retreated to Dunkerque in May 1940 when the Germans launched a diversionary Blitzkrieg in Holland, Belgium, and Northern France. ... In a hurry to get to Paris before the French could consolidate their defenses, Hitler later launched his main offensive in central France, bypassing the British Dunkerque pocket, the mopping up of which would have required several weeks. The British Expeditionary Force was successfully evacuated from Continental Europe while the Germans concentrated on defeating France. ... Hitler was more worried about Stalin grabbing chunks of Eastern Europe if Germany got bogged down on the Western Front. He considered the British only a minor nuisance at the time.

11/5/1940, Greeks Threatening to Cut Off Italian Column Near Florina, Italians Retreat in Disorder, Naval Engagement Near Corfu

11/5/1940, Chaplin Makes Fun of Hitler in New Movie "The Great Dictator"; Hitler Is Bumped Off in Movie & Replaced by a Liberal, Part 1

11/5/1940, Chaplin Makes Fun of Hitler in New Movie "The Great Dictator"; Hitler Is Bumped Off in Movie & Replaced by a Liberal, Part 2

11/5/1940, London Gets First All-Clear After Eight Weeks of German Bombing

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Post by OpanaPointer » 21 Dec 2014, 04:22

It's not well known that Willkie was an interventionist and became a traveling troubleshooter for FDR after he lost the election.

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Post by Globalization41 » 21 Dec 2014, 05:39

11/5/1940, Italians Bog Down in Greece, Bulgarian Officials Believe Germans Marshalling Troops in Rumania for Attack on Greece

Note: Hitler was also interested in temporarily blocking Stalin from seizing a land bridge to the Dardanelles Straits. Stalin hoped to eventually gain control of the Straits while Hitler was tied up with Great Britain. Meanwhile, Hitler hinted to the Soviets he was only interested in the Dardanelles as a means of blocking their mutual enemy Britain from entering the Black Sea.

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11/5/1940, Greeks Push Italians Back to Albania, British Land in Crete, Berlin Reports Mussolini Flying on Air Raid Against Greece, Part 1

11/5/1940, Greeks Push Italians Back to Albania, British Land in Crete, Berlin Reports Mussolini Flying on Air Raid Against Greece, Part 2

11/5/1940, Hitler's Oil, Dwindling Supplies; British Blockade Deprives Germany of Many Vital Products

11/5/1940; Japanese Retreat in South China Due to Overextension, but Japs May Try to Grab the P.I., Malaya, & Dutch East Indies

11/5/1940, Batavia Unenthusiastic About Japanese New World Order Proposal Including Dutch East Indies in the so-Called Asiatic Block

11/5/1940, Invasion of Malaya Unlikely

11/5/1940, The Burma Road, Heroic Engineering Achievement

11/5/1940, Russian Army Newspaper Red Star Reports Intense Fighting in Central China

11/5/1940; Wealthy in Tokyo Avoid Gas Rationing by Purchasing Multiple Taxis, Parking Them, & Using Ration Cards of Former Owners

11/5/1940, Danube Conference on Hold, Soviets Complain Russia Instead of Germany Should Control Danube's Maritime Reaches

11/5/1940, British Admiralty Announces Loss of Two Large Armed Merchant Cruisers to Enemy Torpedoes

11/5/1940; Churchill Tells House of Commons that Britain Has Established Bases in Crete, Warns of Hardships Ahead, Part 1

11/5/1940; Churchill Tells House of Commons that Britain Has Established Bases in Crete, Warns of Hardships Ahead, Part 2

11/5/1940, German Press Denies Russo-Axis Tension, Germans Strengthen Garrisons Facing 2.5 Million Red Army Troops

11/5/1940, British Bombing of Military Targets More Effective than German Indiscriminate Bombing, British Increase Aircraft Production

11/5/1940, Minister for Home Security Reports on R.A.F. Victories of August & September

11/5/1940, German Army Concentrating in Rumania, Germans Shake Down Rumanian Gov't, Gestapo Agents Stationed at Every Hotel

11/5/1940, Overdue Canadian Minesweeper Bras d'Or Now Considered Lost

11/5/1940, Hitler to Make Peace Proposals, Fuehrer Wants to Establish a European Order to Usher in New Golden Age

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