1940

In 1940, World War II raged on across the globe.

In the United States of America, the Pied Piper's eight year series of child abductions came to an end. (TV: The Day of the Clown)

Dated events
In May, the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, near the Dover cliffs in the UK, worked to prevent a Nemonite invasion from derailing a British counterattack called Operation Dynamo. (AUDIO: The Nemonite Invasion)

On 12 October, at 8:47 p.m., the New Regency Theatre, which had been owned and operated by the late Henry Gordon Jago during the 1890s, was destroyed in the Blitz, as was the hotel next to it. (AUDIO: Swan Song)

On 17 October, the Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams visited London during the Blitz, where they saved Ian Fleming from a bomb and became the inspiration for James Bond. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse)

In December, the Seventh Doctor visited Guernsey. (PROSE: Just War) A Berserker pendant was lost in an air raid on Park Vale Barracks, on the future site of Park Vale Comprehensive School. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker)

On 24 December, the Fourth Doctor and Leela encountered the Home Guard volunteer Richard Charlesworth in Charnage House in England. (PROSE: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow)

Undated events
Sir Oswald Mosley was imprisoned for advocating that the United Kingdom should ally itself with Nazi Germany in World War II. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Christina Pushkin was born. (AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race)

Constance Clarke began working at Bletchley Park. (AUDIO: Criss-Cross)

The amnesiac Eighth Doctor tried to join the RAF, but was turned down when he couldn't prove he was a British subject. (PROSE: The Turing Test)

Alternative timeline
In an alternative timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II, King Edward VIII was restored to the British throne with Wallis Simpson as his Queen. He signed a treaty which established Great Britain as a protectorate of the Greater German Reich. The Prime Minister Winston Churchill was executed as a war criminal. He was succeeded by the prominent Nazi sympathiser Sir Oswald Mosley. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Behind the scenes
One possible "game over" for the video game Don't Blink has the player being sent back in time by a Weeping Angel to the year 1940 to die in the Blitz.