On 12 March 1940 the Moscow Peace treaty ended the Winter War, with Finland ceding its respective portions of the Karelian Peninsula and Lake Ladoga to the Soviet Union.
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31 Mar 1940 Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic established
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Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic established
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Apr–May 1940 Soviet Union executes about 20,000 Polish nationalists at Katyn Forest and elsewhere
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Soviet Union executes about 20,000 Polish nationalists at Katyn Forest and elsewhere
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As part of Operation Weserübung—the invasion of Denmark and Norway—German forces landed along the coast of the Kingdom of Norway on 9 April 1940, capturing the towns of Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Narvik on that same day. The operation was complicated by the arrival of the British in the north and continued Norwegian resistance in the interior, but by 1 June the Allies agreed the situation was hopeless. The Norwegian government evacuated on 7 June, with last resistance ending on 10 June.
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In accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union occupied the Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, annexing them unilaterally later that summer. Contrary to the Pact, Germany did not occupy Lithuania, and the Winter War prevented Russia from occupying Finland as planned.
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Adolf Hitler and top military officials of Nazi Germany signed an armistice with representatives of the French Third Republic at 18:36 near Compiègne, France—the exact location of the 1918 armistice ending World War I. This new armistice ended French involvement in World War II on the side of the Allies and established a German zone of occupation in northern and western France, leaving the remainder (“Vichy France”) to be governed by the French.
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28 Jun 1940 Romania withdraws from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in response to Soviet ultimatum
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Romania withdraws from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in response to Soviet ultimatum
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