1939

1 Sep	Germany invades Poland.
2 Sep	The passenger liner SS Athenia is sunk by the german submarine U-30.
2 Sep	Italy proclaims neutrality in the german-polish conflict.
3 Sep	Britain, Frace, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa declare war on Germany.
5 Sep	United States proclaims neutrality.
7 Sep	French troops enter Saar, Germany.
10 Sep	Canada declares war on Germany.
16 Sep	British carrier HMS Courageous sunk.
17 Sep	Soviet Union invades Poland.
19 Sep	Soviet and german troops meet at Brest-Litovsk, Poland.
27 Sep	Warsaw surrenders.
6 Oct	Last organised resistance in Poland is crushed.
14 Oct	British battleship HMS Royal Oak sunk in the Scapa Flow navalbase by a german submarine.
8 Nov	Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Bürgerbräukeller, Munich. The carpenter George Elser is later arrested.
30 Nov	Soviet Union invades Finland.
1 Dec	Stalin forms a soviet puppet-regime in occupied Terijoki, Finland, led by Otto-Wille Kuusinen.
2 Dec	Soviet Union forces occupies Petsamo, Finland.
17 Dec	German battleship Graf Spee scuttled of Montevideo, Uruguary, following the Battle of the River Plate.