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| 1940 |
| | | Gene Kelly makes his name on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Ernest Hemingway publishes the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, set in the Spanish Civil War | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Avraham Stern forms the Stern Gang, a new Jewish terrorist group in Palestine and an offshoot of Irgun | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman is rejected by numerous publishers before becoming, decades later, his best-known novel | |
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| 1940 |
| | | British actors Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier marry | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Winston Churchill gives Harold Macmillan his first ministerial appointment, in the Department of Supply | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Roger Schutz establishes an ecumenical religious order at Taiz&eachute; in France | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Radar masts along the coasts of Britain give early warning of German air attacks | |
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| 1940 |
| | | John Ford directs Henry Fonda in the film of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin ridicules Hitler in The Great Dictator, the first film in which he speaks coherent dialogue | |
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