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 | 1939-11-30 | Karelian Isthmus | The Soviet Union invades Finland. Troops advance up the Karelian Isthmus untill they reach the Mannerheim Line. | Read about 'Karelian Isthmus' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Karelian Isthmus' | |
| 1939-11-30 | 1940-01-08 | Battle of Suomussalmi | 27,000 Russian forces are killed and 50 tanks destroyed as Finnish troops surround them in -40 degree F blizzard conditions. | Read about 'Battle of Suomussalmi' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Suomussalmi' |
| 1939-11-26 | Mainila Shelling | Red Army shelling of Soviet village Mainila staged to implicate Finland and providing the casus belli for the invasion of Finland | Read about 'Mainila Shelling' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Mainila Shelling' | |
| 1939-11-23 | Rawalpindi | Despite being hopelessly outgunned, 60-year old Captain Edward Coverley Kennedy RN of Rawalpindi decided to fight, rather than surrender. He was heard to say "Well fight them both, theyll sink us, and that will be that. Good-bye". | Read about 'Rawalpindi' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Rawalpindi' | |
| 1939-11-21 | 1939-11-27 | Scharnhost and Gneisenau | German battlecruisers cruise the North Atlantic on commerce raiding mission for the first time. Scharnhorst's first wartime operation was a sortie into the Iceland-Faroes passage | Read about 'Scharnhost and Gneisenau' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Scharnhost and Gneisenau' |
| 1939-10-16 | Firth of Forth | German air campaign against Britain begins. During a raid on Firth of Forth, the cruisers Southampton and Edinburgh are damaged. | Read about 'Firth of Forth' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Firth of Forth' | |
| 1939-10-14 | Scapa Flow | The battleship Royal Oak is sunk by U-47 in the supposedly secure anchorage of Scapa Flow. 833 crew are lost. | Read about 'Scapa Flow' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Scapa Flow' | |
| 1939-10-06 | Poland | Polish resisitance ends. | Read about 'Poland' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Poland' | |
| 1939-09-30 | Graf Spee | The German raider sinks the merchantman Clement, off Brazil. | Read about 'Graf Spee' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Graf Spee' | |
| 1939-09-25 | English Channel | The British Royal Navy begins laying mines in the English Channel. Germans begin to lay magnetic mines in British coastal shipping lanes. | Read about 'English Channel' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'English Channel' |
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