Timeline Of World War II (1940)
This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother’s nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others ...”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)