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1939-11-04Neutrality Act of 1939

President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.

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1939-10-16Firth of Forth

German air campaign against Britain begins. During a raid on Firth of Forth, the cruisers Southampton and Edinburgh are damaged.

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1939-10-14Scapa Flow

The battleship Royal Oak is sunk by U-47 in the supposedly secure anchorage of Scapa Flow. 833 crew are lost.

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1939-10-12Finland

Russia begins negotiating with Finland, making territorial demands.

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1939-10-06Poland

Polish resisitance ends.

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1939-09-30Graf Spee

The German raider sinks the merchantman Clement, off Brazil.

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1939-09-25English Channel

The British Royal Navy begins laying mines in the English Channel. Germans begin to lay magnetic mines in British coastal shipping lanes.

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1939-09-22Lvov

Soviet troops capture Lvov

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1939-09-20U-27 sunk

U-27 was hunted down and sunk very early in the war. She was the second submarine (after U-39) to be sunk.

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1939-09-19Brest-Litovsk

German and Soviet armies meet at Brest-Litovsk

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