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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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| 1940 |
| | | American Ballet Theatre, directed by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, begins its first season in New York | |
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| 1940 |
| | | English potter Bernard Leach publishes an influential manual, A Potter's Book | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah puts forward the concept of independent Muslim states within India | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen design an 'organic chair' for mass production in moulded plywood and aluminium | |
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| 1940 |
| | | The Conservative Colorados recover power in Paraguay and reimpose military rule | |
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