Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cast Genre Notes 1939: All Living Things: Andrew Buchanan: Catherine Lacey, Michael Gainsborough: Drama short [1] The Arsenal Stadium Mystery: Thorold Dickinson: Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean: Mystery: Ask a Policeman: Marcel Varnel: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott: Comedy: Beyond Our Horizon: Norman Walker: Milton Rosmer ...
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 ...
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
The Invasion of Poland, [e] also known as the September Campaign, [f] Polish Campaign, [g] and Polish Defensive War of 1939 [h] [13] (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. [14]
The German prize crew of the City of Flint (disguised as a Danish ship named Alf) entered the Norwegian port of Tromsø to get fresh water. The Norwegians supplied the water but ordered the ship to have its proper name and marking restored and to leave the next morning. [22] The comedy film At the Circus starring the Marx Brothers was released.
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.
1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania, requiring return of the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) to Germany. At an emergency meeting in London to deal with the Romanian crisis, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet suggests to Lord Halifax that the ideal state for saving Romania from a German attack is Poland.
Cast Genre Notes Alpenkorps im Angriff: Gösta Nordhaus: documentary Arbeitskameraden - Sportkameraden: Hans Heinrich: documentary Deutsches Land in Afrika: Johannes Häussler: documentary German Land in Africa; Dschungel-Geheimnisse : Kurt Rupli: documentary Eger, eine alte deutsche Stadt : Rudolf Gutscher: documentary Fallschirmjäger: E.K ...