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invasion of Poland
The invasion was of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II. -
France attempt to appease Nazi aggression.
France attempt to appease the Nazi agrresion France signed the Munich Pact and helped give Germany "permission" to invade the Sudeten territories of but It was soon clear that this attempt at appeasement failed. -
French Army penetrate in to the Saarland
Nine divisions of the French Army penetrate in to the Saarland, but their advance is very slow and no effort is made to attack the 'Westwall' itself. -
Braitain and France
Britain and France, instead of immediately declaring war against Germany look to Mussolini who had proposed an international conference to revise the Versailles treaty terms. In France, general mobilisation declared. -
France surrenders
The French fortress of Maubeuge surrenders, while 6th Army captures Ghent and Tournai in Belgium and St Omer in North-eastern France. The first British civilian bomb casualties are reported. Luftwaffe sink destroyer Wessex off Calais. -
British retreat, French defeat
The best and most modern French armies had been sent north and lost in the resulting encirclement; the French had lost their best heavy weaponry and their best armoured formations. -
Atlantic coast
In the Atlantic coast they established a new French goverment based at the town of the president governer of French Vinchy. -
Vinchy in France
The armistice army, which is the official name for the Vichy army, was headed by Marshal Pétain and had its headquarters in Vichy, capital of the French State with bases disseminated around the world as part of the French Colonial Empire. -
British support
The British loaned Spitfires to the Free French pilots fighting in the Royal Air Force squadrons and British navy ships were also lent to the Free French navy. -
French Legion of Fighters and Volunteers of the National Revolution
the force changed its name to Légion française des combattants et des volontaires de la Révolution nationale Legion of Fighters and Volunteers of the National Revolution. -
The Army of Africa is an historical colonial
The Army of Africa is an historical colonial force created in 1830 as an expeditionary corps set to conquer the Regency of Algiers (proto-Algeria); mission fulfilled in 1847. It fought 1939-1940 as a force of the French Republic, then following the surrender of metropolitan France it became a Vichy force fighting the Allies (1940–1942) at the battle of Mers-el-Kebir and Operation Torch, then it evolved as a rebel faction of the Vichy forces in 1942. -
Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon
The Vichy French navy did sabotage on its docked fleet at Toulon in southern France. This act's purpose was to prevent the German Kriegsmarine to seize the Vichy French ships and to be able to use its firepower against the Allies and Free French. -
Free French Forces and Army of Africa merger
French forces received enough military equipment through Lend-Lease to re-equip eight divisions and allow the return of borrowed British equipment. At this point, the Free French forces and Army of Africa were merged to form the. -
France was occupied by the Germans
France was occupied by the Germans until 1944 it was a massive Allied force invaded the beaches of Normandy.Through the summer and fall, the Allies pushed eastward through France towards Germany Allied troops also landed in the South of France. -
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The of the war world 2
By the end of the war, about 350,000 French soldiers had been killed, and almost a half million French civilians had died.
