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In America, meanwhile, new ground was breaking with the opening of an institution that would become world famous n the next half-decade – the first McDonalds opened in San Bernardino in California.
The war dominated the headlines in Britain and recruitment began for volunteers to what would become the Home Guard – later to be immortalised in the TV comedy ‘Dad’s Army’ – while on the European mainland German forces advanced, annexing Belgium among other countries in the process.
May saw the legendary Dunkirk evacuation, a milestone in the opening stages of the war that saw great loss of life, while the summer saw the Battle of Britain, a vital air defence strategy that led to Prime Minister Winston Churchill giving his legendary address that included the line “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”.
London was hit by the blitz – a prolonged bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe – and 500 German bombers laid the industrial town of Coventry to waste in a stunning raid in November.
The Olympic Games – due to be held in London in 1940 – were suspended due to the war, and in America the military began its draft programme that would see 16 million men inducted into the armed forces in preparation for possible war. 1940, a watershed year in many ways, changed the face of the world forever.
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