Editing 1940 (section)

===June===
{{Main|June 1940}}
*[[June 1]] – WWII: Rear Admiral Sir [[Frederic Wake-Walker|W. Frederic Wake-Walker]]'s flagship, the [[destroyer]] [[HMS Keith|''Keith'']], is sunk by [[Junkers Ju 87|Stuka]]s at Dunkirk.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-14B-HMS_Keith.htm |title=HMS Keith, destroyer |website=www.naval-history.net}}</ref>
*[[June 3]]
**WWII: [[Paris]] is bombed by the [[Luftwaffe]] for the first time.
**[[The Holocaust]]: [[Franz Rademacher]] proposes the [[Madagascar Plan]].
**The [[Weather Bureau]] is transferred to the [[United States Department of Commerce]].
*[[June 4]] – WWII:
**The [[Dunkirk evacuation]] ends: The British and French navies, together with large numbers of civilian vessels from various nations, complete evacuating 300,000 troops from [[Dunkirk]], France to England.
**[[Winston Churchill]] tells the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]], "We shall not flag or fail. [[We shall fight on the beaches]]... on the landing grounds... in the fields and the streets.... We shall never surrender."
*[[June 7]] – King [[Haakon VII of Norway]] and his government are evacuated from [[Tromsø (city)|Tromsø]] to London, on [[HMS Devonshire (39)|HMS ''Devonshire'']].<ref name=Borgersrud>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Lars |last=Borgersrud |author-link=Lars Borgersrud |encyclopedia=[[Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-1945]] |title=Nøytralitetsvakt |editor=[[Hans Fredrik Dahl|Dahl, Hans Fredrik]] |editor2=[[Guri Hjeltnes|Hjeltnes, Guri]] |editor3=[[Berit Nøkleby|Nøkleby, Berit]] |editor4=[[Nils Johan Ringdal|Ringdal, Nils Johan]] |editor5=[[Øystein Sørensen|Sørensen, Øystein]] |url=http://www.nb.no/utlevering/nb/d2e8afecb1aba47bf48bb3cd246dd070#&struct=DIV314 |access-date=2012-06-29 |year=1995 |publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo |isbn=978-82-02-14138-7 |page=313 |language=no}}</ref>
*[[June 10]] – WWII:
**Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
**U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech during the graduation ceremonies of the [[University of Virginia]].<ref>[ftp://ebstorage2.mcpa.virginia.edu/library/nara/fdr/audiovisual/speeches/fdr_1940_0610.mp3 "Stab in the Back"]{{dead link|date=January 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
**Canada declares war on Italy.
**The [[Norwegian Army]] surrenders to [[German forces]].
**The [[French government]] flees to [[Tours]].
*[[June 11]] – WWII: The [[Western Desert Campaign]] opens, with British forces crossing the [[Frontier Wire (Libya)|Frontier Wire]] into [[Italian Libya]].
*[[June 12]] – WWII: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to [[Major-General]] [[Erwin Rommel]]'s 7th Panzer Division, at [[Saint-Valery-en-Caux]].
*[[June 13]] – WWII: Paris is declared an [[open city]].
*[[June 14]] – WWII:
**The French government flees to [[Bordeaux]], and Paris falls under German occupation.
**U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the [[United States Navy]]'s tonnage by 11%.
**A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from [[Tarnów]] become the first residents of the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]].
**[[Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania]]: The Soviet Union demands that its [[Red Army]] be allowed to enter Lithuania and form a pro-Soviet puppet "[[People's Government of Lithuania]]".
*[[June 15]] – WWII:
**[[Occupation of the Baltic states]]: The Soviet Union occupies [[Lithuania]].
**[[Verdun]] falls to German forces.
*[[June 16]]
**The [[Churchill war ministry]] in the United Kingdom offers a [[Franco-British Union]] (inspired by [[Jean Monnet]]) to [[Paul Reynaud]], [[Prime Minister of France]], in the hope of preventing France from agreeing to an [[Second Armistice at Compiègne|armistice with Germany]], but Reynaud resigns when his own cabinet refuses to accept it.
**The [[Sturgis Motorcycle Rally]] is held for the first time, in [[Sturgis, South Dakota]].
*[[June 17]] – WWII:[[File:The Sinking of the Cunard Liner Ss Lancastria Off St Nazaire HU3325.jpg|thumb|''[[RMS Lancastria |Lancastria]]'' sinking off Saint-Nazaire as seen from a rescue ship]]
**[[Philippe Pétain]] becomes [[Prime Minister of France]], and immediately asks Germany for peace terms.
**[[Occupation of the Baltic states]]: The Soviet Union occupies [[Estonia]] and [[Latvia]].
**[[Operation Aerial]] begins: [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
**{{RMS|Lancastria}}, serving as a [[troopship]], is bombed and sunk by [[Luftwaffe]] [[Junkers Ju 88]] aircraft, while evacuating British troops and nationals from [[Saint-Nazaire]] in France, with the loss of at least 4,000 lives, the largest single UK loss in any World War II event, immediate news of which is suppressed in the British press.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/07/26/archives/lancastrias-end-told-by-survivors-italian-and-nazi-planes-said-to.html |title=Lancastria's end told by survivors; Italian and Nazi Planes Said to Have Shot at Swimmers and Fired Oily Waters; Many Caught Below Deck; Rescue Craft Reported Set Ablaze; Victims Include Women and Children |work=The New York Times|date=July 26, 1940 |access-date=May 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hooton |first=E. R. |title=Luftwaffe at War: Blitzkrieg in the West |publisher=Chevron/Ian Allan |year=2007 |location=London |page=88 |isbn=978-1-85780-272-6}}</ref> Destroyer {{HMS|Beagle|H30}} rescues around 600.
*[[June 18]] – WWII:
**[[Winston Churchill]] tells the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]]: "The [[Battle of France]] is over. The [[Battle of Britain]] is about to begin... if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, [[This was their finest hour]]."
**[[Appeal of 18 June]]: General [[Charles de Gaulle]], ''de facto'' leader of the [[Free French Forces]], makes his first broadcast appeal over [[Radio Londres]] from London, rallying the [[French Resistance]], calling on all French people to continue the fight against [[Nazi Germany]]: "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war."
*[[June 20]] – WWII: [[Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940|Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands]] to England begins.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mawson |first1=Gillian |title=Guernsey Evacuees: The Forgotten Evacuees of the Second World War |date=2012 |publisher=History Press |isbn=9780752470191}}</ref>
*[[June 21]] – WWII: The unsuccessful [[Italian invasion of France]] begins with an offensive in the Alps.
*[[June 22]]
**WWII: [[Second Armistice at Compiègne]]: The [[French Third Republic]] and [[Nazi Germany]] sign an [[armistice]], ending the [[Battle of France]] in the [[Forest of Compiègne]], in the same [[Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits]] railroad car used by Marshal [[Ferdinand Foch]] to conclude the [[Armistice with Germany]] in [[1918]]. This divides France into a ''[[Zone occupée]]'' in the north and west, under the [[Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany)]], and a southern ''[[Zone libre]]'', [[Vichy France]].
**[[Albert Einstein]] gives a public address in the "I'm An American" series, on becoming an American citizen.
*[[June 23]] – WWII: German leader [[Adolf Hitler]] surveys newly defeated Paris, in now-occupied France.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hitler Picture: Hitler in Paris |url=http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blhitler38.htm |website=20th Century History |publisher=About.com |access-date=2013-03-25 |archive-date=October 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005022240/http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blhitler38.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[June 24]]
**WWII: [[Vichy France]] signs armistice terms with Italy.
**WWII: [[Operation Fish]] – British Royal Navy cruiser {{HMS|Emerald|D66|6}} sails from [[Greenock]] (Scotland) in convoy for [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] (arriving July 1), carrying a large part of the [[gold reserves of the United Kingdom]] and [[Security (finance)|securities]] for safe keeping in [[Canada]].<ref name=Draper>{{cite book |last=Draper |first=Alfred |title=Operation Fish: The Fight to Save the Gold of Britain, France and Norway from the Nazis |year=1979 |publisher=General Publishing |location=Don Mills |isbn=9780773600683}}</ref>
**United States politics: The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] begins its [[1940 Republican National Convention|national convention]] in [[Philadelphia]], and nominates [[Wendell Willkie]] as its candidate for president.
*[[June 25]] – WWII: After the defeat of [[Armistice with France (Second Compiègne)|France]], Hitler plans for an invasion of Switzerland, known as [[Operation Tannenbaum]].
*[[June 26]] – [[Soviet calendar]]: The Soviet Union reverts to a seven-day week for all purposes.
*[[June 28]]
**General [[Charles de Gaulle]] is officially recognized by Britain as the "Leader of all [[Free French]]men, wherever they may be."
**[[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] [[Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina|cedes Bessarabia and northern Bukovina]] to the Soviet Union, after an ultimatum.
*[[June 30]]
**WWII: German forces land in [[Guernsey]], marking the start of the 5-year [[Occupation of the Channel Islands]].
**[[Federal government of the United States]] reorganisation:
***The [[Civil Aeronautics Administration (United States)|Civil Aeronautics Administration]] is placed under the [[Department of Commerce]].
***The U.S. [[Food and Drug Administration]] is placed under the [[Federal Security Agency]].
***The [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]] is placed under the [[Department of the Interior]].