What Happened in 1939

1939 — year

Porajmos — mass murder against Roma people in Europe

Italian invasion of Albania — 1939 World War II invasion

1939 South American Championship — football tournament

EuroBasket 1939 — 1939 edition of Eurobasket

1939 New York World's Fair — fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York

1939 in film — overview of the events of 1939 in film

Battle of Changsha — 1939 first of four attempts by Japan to take the city of Changsha during the second Sino-Japanese War

White Paper of 1939 — 1939 statement of British policy in Palestine

8th Chess Olympiad — FIDE chess tournament for national teams

Battle of Wizna — 1939 early battle of World War II

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact — 1939 neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

Gleiwitz incident — 1939 staged attack by Nazi forces

Einstein–Szilárd letter — letter by Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein to US President Roosevelt in August 1939

Cvetković–Maček Agreement — political compromise on internal divisions in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Pact of Steel — agreement signed between Germany and Italy in 1939

Western Front — military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany

German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation — 1939 treaty signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

Bloody Sunday — Bydgoszcz, 3 September 1939

Intelligenzaktion — secret mass murder conducted by Nazi Germany against the Polish intelligentsia early in the Second World War

German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk

Slovak invasion of Poland — event during Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939

Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig — 1939 battle

Battle of the River Plate — 1939 first naval battle of the Second World War

Erzincan earthquake of 1939 — 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Erzincan in eastern Turkey on December 27, 1939

Battle of Tolvajärvi — 1939 first large offensive victory for the Finns in the Winter War

11th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1938

Shelling of Mainila — military incident staged by the Soviet Union used to justify the Winter War

1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania — 1939 German diplomatic demand on LIthuania