Top 10 events

Treaty of Munich

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9/30/1938
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler. The agreement was made in order to keep the peace of war and gave Czechoslovakia away to German in order to do so.

Paris Peace conference

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7/29/1946
Representatives from the allied powers met up at the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, France and allowed many of the past allies of Germany to join the United nations however large sums of reparations were demanded from the formerly Axis nations.

The French resistance

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Lasted from 22 Jun 1940 - 28 Aug 1944, after France surrendered to Germany many civilians formed many resistant groups against German occupations and the Vichy government.

Paris is liberated

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8/25/1944
After the success with operation Dragoon, the French fighters began to go against the German fighters. German resistance was light and after more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris was liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.

V.E. day

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5/8/1945
A grand victory for the allies,the day the German surrendered

Fall of France

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5/10/1940
German forces invaded areas of France pushing the British Forces and French forces (Dunkirk) back to the sea in Operation Dynamo.

Battle of Dunkirk

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5/10/1940
The German Nazi's ended the "phony war" by their blitzkrieg attack.Soon Germany invaded France through the Ardennes Forest.The evacuation took many days to carry out.

France signs armistice with Germany

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6/22/1940
Paris had fallen and with this the armistice, signed by the French on June 22, went into effect on June 25, and more than half of France became occupied by the Germans.

D-Day

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6/6/1944
Also known as "Normandy invasion", some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning.The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe.

France and Britain declare war on Germany

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9/3/1939
In response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany. Both countries had given Germany deadlines to pull their country out of Poland however Germany did not.