1940-1941 By mob1999 Jan 1, 1940 The Nazis established 356 ghettos More info Period: Jan 1, 1940 to Dec 31, 1941 TimeLine for 1940-1941 Feb 18, 1940 First televised basketball game (college game at New York City's Madison Square Garden-University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University, 50-37). More info Mar 12, 1940 Finland signed a peace treaty with Soviets More info Jun 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins More info Jun 14, 1940 Germans enter Paris More info Nov 11, 1940 The Jeep made its debut More info Nov 17, 1940 Green Bay Packers become first NFL team to travel by plane More info Nov 23, 1940 General deportations begin from Germany to major ghettos in Poland and further east More info Mar 1, 1941 M&Ms® were manufactured for the U.S. Army. More info May 28, 1941 First night game at Washington DC, Griffith Stadium More info Sep 21, 1941 Nazis begin using mobile killing squad called Einsatzgruppen More info Sep 26, 1941 The first Superman movie, an animated cartoon, debuted. More info Dec 13, 1941 the nazis establish 356 ghettos in Poland, the SU, Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania more info