30 Mar 1940
- Germany supplied weapons to the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Winston Churchill acknowledged Soviet neutrality in the European War. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | CPC]
- French Minister of Defense Daladier persuaded the French War Committee not to ratify British proposal to mine the Rhine River. British responded by threatening to abandon the plan to mine Norwegian waters. ww2dbase [Édouard Daladier | CPC]
- Japanese troops began to evacuate Wuyuan, Suiyuan Province, China. ww2dbase [Battle of Wuyuan | CPC]
- Japan installed a puppet government in Nanjing, China under the leadership of Wang Jinwei. ww2dbase [Wang Jingwei | Nanjing | CPC]
- Finland ceded territory to Russia. ww2dbase [The Winter War | CPC]
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