The great controversy of the Battle of the France focuses on causes for the catastrophic defeat suffered by the French army, and to a lesser extent, the Allies in general. Some of the suggested causes of the Allied defeat were: Military factors: Treason: this theory was very popular at the time of events. A Fifth column was supposed to be cooperating with a host of disguised German agents. After the war this was conclusively shown to have been a case of mass hysteria, but such stories are still repeated in some p ...

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Casualty estimates vary in the Battle of France. Battle of France - German. Approximately 27,074 Germans were killed and 111,034 were wounded, with a further 18,384 missing for total German casualties of 156,000 men. Battle of France - Allied. In exchange, they had destroyed the French, Belgian, Dutch, Polish and British armies. Total allied losses including the capture of the French army amounted to 2,292,000. Casualties, killed or wounded, were as follows:

In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the Maginot Line is used as a metaphor referring to the boys' false sense of security they have towards the rest of the world. The boys at Devon have a “separate peace”; they are comfortable with what goes on since they have built walls around themselves to keep the world out. This ineffectual and unnecessary defense is comparable to the Maginot Line. Gene, near the end of the novel, states, "All of them, except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against the enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, the ene ...

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Timeline of World War II - January. 2: Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay dies in plane crash. 17: Warsaw liberated by Red Army troops. 27: The Battle of the Bulge officially ends; Auschwitz concentration camp is liberated by Soviet troops. Timeline of World War II - February. 2: Ecuador declares war on Germany. 4: Yalta Conference of Allied leaders begins. 8: Paraguay declares war on Germany. 12: Peru declares war on Germ ...

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President Roosevelt continued to cultivate Vichy and promoted General Henri Giraud as a preferable alternative to de Gaulle, despite the poor performance of Vichy forces in North Africa—Admiral François Darlan had landed in Algiers the day before Operation Torch with the XIXth vichyst Army Corps, only to be neutralised within 15 hours by a 400-strong French resistance force. Nonetheless, Admiral Darlan was accepted by Roosevelt and Churchill as the French leader in North Africa, rather than de Gaulle. The United States also resented the F ...

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France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 following the German invasion of Poland. After the eight month Phony War the Germans launched their offensive in the west on 10 May 1940. Within days, it became clear that French forces were overwhelmed and that military collapse was inevitable. Government and military leaders, deeply shocked by the debacle, engaged in debate over how to proceed. Many officials, including the Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud, wanted to move the government to French territories in North Africa, and continue the w ...

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Timeline of World War II - January. 14: Casablanca Conference of Allied leaders begins. 23: Allies capture Tripoli, Libya. 31: Large parts of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, including Field Marshal Paulus, surrender. Timeline of World War II - February. 2: The remainder of the 6th Army surrenders. 8: Liberation of Guadalcanal completed. Timeline of World War II - April. 7: Bolivia ...

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Following the Allied invasions of France, Pétain and his ministers fled to Germany and established a government in exile at Sigmaringen. In 1945, many members of the Vichy government were arrested and charged with high treason and other crimes. Trials ensued and some, including Laval and Darnand, were executed. Pétain was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Others fled or went into hiding, such as Jacques de Bernonville who went to Québec, while some were not prosecuted for their crimes until much ...

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Timeline of World War II - January. 2: Japanese troops occupy Manila. 11: Japanese troops capture Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 12: Japan invades Burma. 25: Japanese troops invade the Solomon Islands. Timeline of World War II - February. 15: Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces. 19: Darwin, Australia, bombed by Japanese air force. 27: Battle of the Java Sea begins. ...

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Timeline of World War II - September. 1: The Polish September Campaign begins at 4:30 a.m. with the German Luftwaffe attacking several targets in Poland. The United Kingdom and France demand Germany's immediate withdrawal. 1: The United Kingdom home front is opened as the government declares general mobilisation of the British Army and begins evacuation plans in preparation of German air attacks. 3: The politics and diplomacy of World War II begins with frantic government responses to the ...

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Timeline of World War II - January. 12: British and Australian troops capture Tobruk. Timeline of World War II - February. 25: Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland captured by British forces. Timeline of World War II - March. 4: British commandos carry out attack on oil facilities at Narvik in Norway. 11: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act allowing Britain, China and other allied nat ...

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After the war, Reynaud was made again a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1946. Reynaud was in several cabinet positions in the postwar period and remained a prominent figure in French politics, although his attempts to form governments in 1952 and 1953 in the turbulent politics of the French Fourth Republic were failures. Reynaud supported the idea of a United States of Europe, along with a number of prominent contemporaries. Reynaud presided over the consultative committee that drafted the constitution of France's (current) Fifth Republ ...

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Reynaud was born in Barcelonnette, France. His father had made a fortune in the textile industry, enabling Reynaud to study law at the Sorbonne. Reynaud was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies from 1919 to 1924, representing Basses-Alpes, and again from 1928, representing a Paris district. Although he was first elected as part of the conservative "Blue Horizon" bloc in 1919, Reynaud shortly thereafter switched his allegiance to the center-right Alliance Démocratique part ...

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Although Reynaud was increasingly popular, the Chamber of Deputies elected Reynaud premier by only a single vote with most of his own party abstaining; over half of the votes for Reynaud came from the socialist SFIO party. With so much support from the left - and the opposition from many parties on the right - Reynaud's government was especially unstable; many on the Right demanded that Reynaud attack not Germany, but the Soviet Union.[7] The Chamber also ...

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