# Associated Press Calendar
Of Year’s Historic Events o
AY ^ 'n ’ rememh,*red
“ * v ill ho May. Hit
ler invaded Holland and
Belgium Mav 10. crushing
the Out'di in less than a
week. Churchill replaced
Chamberlain as prime mm
ivter. Allied tro^ns ” ere
trapncd in Flanders by a
combination of the Ger
mans' Sedan break-through
that advanced Nan march
channel- ward, and of Mav
28th capitulation of Bel
gian King Leopold and sur
render of his soldiers.
Some 850,000 soldiers trap
ped in Flanders were tak
en n'T h’ood-stained beach
es at Dunkerque.
Tile remaining pictures in this
series of pictorial history will he
printed in the next issue of the
Nugget, Wednesday, January 15.
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T ZL AT T T /T ID XT' One month ohl was the Russo-Finnish war when 1910 dawned
+ U/lil x jn £urope where war between Allies and Axis was also being
fought—lazily at Maginot Line and sporadically in air over Thames estuary and Scotland.
4 Outnumbered Finnish troops routed the Russian 1 till division Jan. near Sunmus
salmi where Arctic cold hastened death and froze Russian soldiers into grotesque shapes.
JWf /[ D f“* T-T Fall of the French cabinet with
Reynaud (left) replacing Daladier,
(right) came March 20, just eight days after the Russo
Finnish peace treaty that gave Russia the Karelian
Isthmus, Viipuri, Lake Ladoga shoreline, and other areas.
JULY Sr ‘T.f fear *ha.* Frenrh ttee' would Im* put to war uses
... ,f '* into AX18 hands led to July 3 naval battle off
Oran, Alger,a, wJiere British gunfire sank French battleship Bretagne
| (•inking, center) and crippled cruisers, various craft. On July 21
I Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania—under pressure—voted to join the USSR
pJJTT Germany struck April 9, invading Den
"* “J mark which submitted and Norwav
' dch resisted so stuhhornly that Steinkjer (above) ais.l
other Norwegian towns soon fell the fury of Nazi homli
ers. The Allies vainly tried to muster aid for Norwav.
TP /■* J? 3Q T T Into the neutral waters of a Norwegian fjord, British ves
■*" w -1 sets pushed Feh. If» to take 300 captive British seamen off
the Allmark (above). Nazi prison ship. Finland's plight was becoming desperate with
Russians moving on \ iipuri. Turkey, on Feh. 8, suddenly seized the large German
owned ivrupp shipyards on the Golden Horn, an inlet of the strategic Bosporus straits.
T 7Jj\T T? France collapsed quickly. It;;' - entered
^ J war ji le 10 and Ma/.is occupied Paris Jun *
1 !, riding past the Are de Triumplie (above) Franr?
Signed aa armistice with Gernur v .Time 112 at (. :::•
piegne forest in railway c; r used fee ti e 1913 at.nisi:re.
Z^ TT (j 7* r Of rT Nazi planes by the hundreds crossed the channel
to homh Kngland, starting an aerial blitzkrieg
that lasted for Meeks. Londoners took over sultMay platforms aug£ tracks
to escape bombs. Raiders visited ports, industrial Midlands. Britain sent
her bombers over the Reich, M’atchcd for any Nazi invasion attempts.
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