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    The Armistice of 22 June 1940, sometimes referred to as the Second Armistice at Compiègne, was an agreement signed at 18:36 on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne...
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    beginning of 1942, the numbers of the Armistice Army reached 550,000 men, including 21,000 officers. Article IV of the Armistice of 22 June 1940 allowed...
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    the Armistice of 22 June 1940 after the fall of France in May 1940. The path of the demarcation line was specified in the Articles of the Armistice. It...
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    same spot for the French and Germans to sign the Armistice of 22 June 1940 after Germany won the Battle of France. The site was destroyed by the Germans...
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    Compiègne Wagon (category Railway coaches of France)
    in which both the Armistice of 11 November 1918 and Armistice of 22 June 1940 were signed. Before the 1918 signing in the Forest of Compiègne, the wagon...
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    marked the end of fighting in World War I, as well as the Armistice of 22 June 1940 after the Battle of France in World War II. The forest of Compiègne is...
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    1918 conference. The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was portrayed as revenge for Germany's earlier defeat, and the Glade of the Armistice was mostly destroyed...
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  • and filmmaker The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 6:36 p.m. A German occupation zone was established in the north and west of France with the remainder...
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  • Marcel-Bruno Gensoul (category French military personnel of World War II)
    admiral who commanded the Force de Raid, based at Brest until the Armistice of 22 June 1940. Then, the force was transferred to Mers El Kébir in French North...
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    signing of the Armistice of 22 June 1940, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and western France. The liberation began when the French Forces of the...
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    that the Armistice of 22 June 1940 was a betrayal of the Allied agreement not to make a separate peace. Churchill said, "What is the value of that? Ask...
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    Vichy France (redirect from Regime of Vichy)
    southern portion of Metropolitan France. This was south of the Line of Demarcation as established by the Armistice of 22 June 1940. It also included...
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    French government. Following the armistice of 22 June 1940, the administration of the islands had been under the control of the Vichy government, represented...
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    armistice. After President Albert Lebrun appointed Pétain prime minister on 16 June, the government signed an armistice with Germany on 22 June 1940....
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    defend Moroccan neutrality under the Armistice of 22 June 1940 at Compiègne. The last stages of the battle consisted of operations by German U-boats which...
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    Franco-Italian Armistice, or Armistice of Villa Incisa, signed on 24 June 1940, in effect from 25 June, ended the brief Italian invasion of France during...
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    war. Nazi Germany invaded France in May 1940 during the early part of World War II. The Armistice of 22 June 1940 ended hostilities, dividing France into...
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    a result of Nazi racial ideologies. During negotiations for the Armistice of 22 June 1940, the Vichy French government adopted a policy of collaboration...
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    months of the Second World War, the latter remaining in use up to the end of the Battle of France and signing of the Armistice of 22 June 1940 between...
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    surveyed until 1938. After the French Armistice of 22 June 1940, the Mareth Line was demilitarised under the supervision of an Italo-German commission. Tunisia...
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  • Joffre-class aircraft carrier (category Ship classes of the French Navy)
    carrier of their own in 1936. One ship was laid down in 1938, but was not launched before all work was cancelled after the Armistice of 22 June 1940. The...
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    the destruction of the last political bargaining chip it had with Germany. After the Fall of France and the Armistice of 22 June 1940, France was divided...
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    Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 (category World War II aircraft of Finland)
    production of the type continued in France for sometime after the Armistice of 22 June 1940 under German supervision. The M.S.406 was exported to a range of customers...
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    contribution during the Battle of France in the face of an invasion by Nazi Germany. As a result of the Armistice of 22 June 1940, the type continued to be...
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  • helping to spark the Irish Civil War. 1940 – World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car...
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    Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (category Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class)
    Armistice of 22 June 1940. During the Vichy Regime, he remained in the Armistice Army, first in regional command posts, then as commander-in-chief of...
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    Normandy (category Former provinces of France)
    Second World War, following the armistice of 22 June 1940, continental Normandy was part of the German occupied zone of France. The Channel Islands were...
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    Civil War. In 1940 Nazi Germany invaded France. The French army soon succumbed to the Blitzkrieg strategy. The Armistice of 22 June 1940 established a...
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    Zone libre (category 1940 establishments in France)
    partition of the French metropolitan territory during World War II, established at the Second Armistice at Compiègne on 22 June 1940. It lay to the south of the...
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    François Darlan (category People of Vichy France)
    was Commander-in-Chief of the French Navy at the beginning of World War II. After France's armistice with Germany in June 1940, Darlan served in Philippe...
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