Battle of FRANCE

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• Battle of FRANCE
• BY CADET CASEY

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• Conflict World War II
• Date May 10, 1940 - June 22, 1940
• Place France
• Result Decisive German victory

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In World War II, the Battle of France was the
German invasion of France and the Low Countries,
executed 10 May 1940 which ended the Phony War

• German armored units punched through the
  Ardennes, outflanking the Maginot Line and
  unhinging the Allied defenders.

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• Paris was occupied
• and the French
• government fled to Bordeaux on 14

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• France was divided into a German occupation zone
  in the north and west and a collaborationist
  government in the south, Vichy France.

• The British Expeditionary Force was evacuated
  from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo, and many French
  units survived the defeat to join the resistance,
  or to fight alongside the Allies as Free French
  forces.

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• France remained under German occupation until the
  Allied landings on D-Day in 1944.

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