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| 1939 |
| | | W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood emigrate together to the USA, later becoming US citizens | |
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| 1939 |
| | | US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris Tropic of Capricorn, about his adolescence in New York | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears give a series of recitals in the USA at the start of a lifelong partnership | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Igor Stravinsky moves to the USA from Paris, his home for nearly 30 years, and settles in Hollywood | |
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| 1940 April 10 |
| | | Allied ships on patrol in the North Sea, soon followed by troops, rush to the defence of Norway | |
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| 1940 May 27 |
| | | The Belgians surrender to the German armies encircling them north and south | |
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| 1940 October |
| | | President Roosevelt, campaigning for a third term, asssures Americans that he will not send their sons to fight in Europe's war | |
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| 1940 October |
| | | The US government provides 50 destroyers to boost the British escort of convoys in the Atlantic | |
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| 1941 August 14 |
| | | Roosevelt and Churchill publish a joint Atlantic Charter, foreseeing a future free from 'Nazi tyranny' | |
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| 1941 August 21 |
| | | The first of the Arctic convoys leaves Scapa Flow, in the north of Scotland, taking Hurricane fighters and raw materials to the Soviet Union | |
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