August 1940
the éphéméride | all on August and 1940.
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- a directive of Hitler request to carry out an intense air war against the United Kingdom.
- Début of the French resistance movement “Fights”.
- the de Gaulle general is condemned to died by Contumace by the military tribunal of the 13th French military region sitting at Clermont-Ferrand.
- severe Rationings in France and Belgium.
- Japanese Ultimatum with the admiral Decoux, French governor of Indo-China.
- Estonia and Lithuania become Soviet republics.
- the Italian forces invade the British Somalia.
- Władysław Sikorski and Winston Churchill signs an agreement for the rebuilding of a Polish army in the United Kingdom.
- Latvia becomes a Soviet republic.
- Alsace and Lorraine are attached to Reich.
- Agreement between De Gaulle and Churchill on the organization of the forces of the free France. A pact is then sealed between Churchill and De Gaulle. By the Agreement of Chequers: the United Kingdom commits itself safeguarding the integrity of all the French possessions and with the integral restoration of the independence and the size of France".
- Arrest of Leon Blum, Edouard Daladier, of the Gamelin general and Georges Mandel considered to be responsible for the defeat of the France.
- Pétain announces to the French the beginning of the national Révolution .
- Intensification of the German air raids on the United Kingdom.
- the Italians take Berbera, capital of the British Somalia.
- Assassination of Leon Trotski with Mexico City.
- First bombardment on London
- First bombardment on Berlin by the Royal Air Force.
- the Chad rejoins the free France of the de Gaulle General.
- the Cameroun rejoins the free France of the de Gaulle General.
- being based on article 19 of the armistice, the Nazis claim the delivery of the Germans interned in the camps of the free Zone.
- the Congo rejoins the free France of the de Gaulle General.
- Creation of the French Legion of the combatants (LFC).
- the Oubangui-Chari rejoins the free France of the de Gaulle General.
- To date, according to the official figures, the full number of soldiers Polish evacuated towards the the United Kingdom amounts to 19.457.
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