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1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter GF), the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
Benjamin Disraeli, Clement Attlee, Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, William Ewart Gladstone
World War II, Russia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian language, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Swedish Academy, Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, Albert Camus, Gabriel García Márquez
World War II, Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War, Royal Air Force, Hermann Göring
Harry S. Truman, Four Freedoms, United States presidential election, 1936, United States presidential election, 1940, United States presidential election, 1944
1921, 1925, 1931, 1916, 1926
1913, 1925, 1920, 1917, 1938
War/Selected anniversaries/December, June 1, 1485, Matthias Corvinus, Hungary
War/Selected anniversaries/December, May 1, 1328, Wars of Scottish Independence, Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton
War/Selected anniversaries/December, November 1, 241, Samhain, Ireland