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| 1939 September 19 |
| | Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark jointly declare their neutrality | |
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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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| 1940 February 16 |
| | 303 captured merchant seamen are rescued in a daring British raid on the German supply ship Altmark, in use as a floating prison in a Norwegian fjord | |
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| 1940 April 9 |
| | German ships and marines occupy the harbours of neutral Denmark and Norway | |
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| 1940 April 9 |
| | The German invasion of Norway includes the world's first airborne assault, with troops arriving by plane to attack the airports of Oslo and Stavanger | |
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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 June 7 |
| | The last Allied forces withdraw from Norway, leaving the country entirely in the hands of its German occupiers | |
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| 1942 February 1 |
| | Vidkun Quisling, founder of the Norwegian Fascist party, is appointed president of German-occupied Norway | |
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| 1942 May |
| | German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer flies to neutral Sweden to contact the British on behalf of conspirators against Hitler | |
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| 1945 October 24 |
| | Vidkun Quisling, Fascist president of occupied Norway from 1942, is tried and executed for treason | |
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