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| 1939 September 27 |
| | | Warsaw falls, after a brave resistance, whereupon Germany and Russia carve up Poland | |
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| 1939 September |
| | | Nazi murder squads (Einsatzgruppen) kill Poland's elite | |
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| 1939 October 14 |
| | | A German U-boat sinks the British battleship Royal Oak at anchor in Scapa Flow | |
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| 1939 November |
| | | Adolf Hitler orders the 'mercy killing' of all those with specified categories of infirmity, beginning with newborn babies and young children | |
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| 1939 November 30 |
| | | Soviet troops cross the borders of Finland, beginning the brief Russo-Finnish War, in keeping with the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | |
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| 1939 December |
| | | Phoney War, Bore War, drôle de guerre and Sitzkrieg are comments on the lack of military action from any side so far | |
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| 1939 December 6-22 |
| | | The Finns win spectacular victories in counter-attacks against the Russian invaders, destroying four Soviet divisions | |
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| 1939 December 13 |
| | | The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled after a battle with Allied ships near the river Plate | |
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| 1939 December 14 |
| | | The USSR is expelled from the League of Nations because of the Soviet invasion of Finland | |
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| 1939 |
| | | T.S. Eliot gives cats a poetic character in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats | |
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