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Countdown to War is a television film made in 1989 as a co-production by Granada Television and PBS.It recounts the events that occurred between 15 March 1939, when the German army commanded by Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and created the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and 3 September 1939, the date when France and United Kingdom declared war on Germany.
On September 3, 1939, the British and French declarations of war on Germany initiated the Battle of the Atlantic.The United States Navy Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) established a combined air and ship patrol of the United States Atlantic coast, including the Caribbean, on 4 September, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the United States' neutrality on 5 September, and declared the ...
September 1: World War II breaks out in Europe with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945.
2 September – Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany. 3 September – The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany. 3 September – British liner SS Athenia becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by U-30 in the eastern ...
August 1939 Metropolis: 17:33 6.1 September 1939 Soldiers with Wings: 18:07 6.2 September 1939 Battle Fleets of England: 17:59 6.3 October 1939 Uncle Sam — The Farmer: 17:21 6.4 November 1939 Newsfronts of War — 1940: 18:16 6.5 December 1939 Crisis in the Pacific — 1940: 17:10 6.6 January 1940 The Republic of Finland 1919–1940: 17:25 6. ...
Julien Bryan in 1917 in France writing "Ambulance 464"Bryan was the son of an elder in the Presbyterian Church with a long missionary tradition. [3] At seventeen after graduating from high school, he volunteered to serve in the American Field Service for the French Army in World War I, driving an ambulance in Verdun and the Argonne, [4] [5] and wrote a book Ambulance 464 about this experience ...
Clash of Futures depicts the history of Europe between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. The multilingual, documentary drama series condenses history into the subjective experience of individuals.
The Royal Navy initiated a naval blockade of Germany on 4 September. Although Britain and France honoured these guarantees by declaring war two days after Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, [6] and the dominions of the British Empire quickly followed suit, so little practical assistance was given to Poland, which was soon defeated, that in its early stages the war declared by ...