Chronology of France during the Second world war

1939

See also: 1939 in France

3 September 1939 : The France declares the war with the Germany, with the the United Kingdom, the Australia, the New Zealand and the Canada.

1940

See also: 1940 in France

21 March 1940 : Paul Reynaud becomes President of the council of the France.
28 March 1940 : France and the United Kingdom reciprocally commit themselves not signing separated peace with the German enemy.
13 April 1940 : Failure of the forwarding of Narvik.
10 May 1940 : Battle of France (fine the June 22nd).
14 May 1940 : Opening of Sedan.
26 May 1940 : Operation Dynamo, evacuation of Dunkirk towards the United Kingdom (fine on June 3rd).
8 June 1940 : The French face is completely dislocated. Exodus of the French civilians of North towards the South.
10 June 1940 : The French government leaves Paris for Bordeaux.
14 June 1940 : The Germans enter Paris, declared “open city”.
16 June 1940 : Philippe Pétain becomes President of the council after the resignation of Paul Reynaud.
17 June 1940 : Philippe Pétain: “It is the tight heart which I say to you today that the combat should be ceased”.
18 June 1940 : Call of June 18th and foundation of the French Committee of the national Release, founding document of the free France, by Charles de Gaulle.
22 June 1940 : Armistice of June 22nd, 1940.
1st July 1940 : The French government settles with Vichy.
3 July 1940 : Battle of Seas el Kebir. The French fleet is destroyed by Royal Navy.
10 July 1940 : Vote full powerss with the marshal Pétain, which becomes Head of the State. (See constitutional Law of July 10th, 1940). End of the Third Republic.
11 July 1940 : Promulgation of the constitutional Acts. The rooms are dissolved.
24 July 1940 : The Alsace and the Lorraine are annexed to IIIe Reich.
30 July 1940 : Building sites of youth

13 August 1940 : Beginning of the national Revolution .

18 October 1940 : Publication with the Official journal of the “Statute of the Jews”.

24 October 1940 : Meet Pétain - Hitler with Montoire.

30 October 1940 : Pétain announces with the radio the Collaboration.

11 November 1940 : demonstration coed against the occupant on the Fields-Élysées.

1941

See also: 1941 in France

29 March 1941 : General police station with the Jewish questions.
14 May 1941 : With Paris, first raid of foreign Jews organized by the Police headquarter.
15 May 1941 : Creation by the communist of the National front.
2 June 1941 : “special Statute for the Jews”.
June 8th, 1941 : The Syria is released by the free French Forces, the government supported by Vichy is reversed.
21 August 1941 : The Communist Fabien, helped of Gilbert Brustlein kill a German officer, the Moser candidate with the Barbès subway, Paris. Beginning of the second raid of Jews (21,22 and August 23rd): 4232 people are stopped then transferred to Drancy.
24 September 1941 : Creation with London of the French National committee.
22 October 1941 : Reprisals after the death of Karl Hotz.
31 December 1941 : Jean Moulin leaves London to be parachuted in France.

1942

See also: 1942 in France

19 February 1942 : Lawsuit of Riom.
March 1942 : French Franc-tireurs and Partisans (ftp).
3 and 4 March 1942 : Air raid of the British against the factories Renault of Billancourt.
27 March 1942 : The first convoy of Jews leaves Drancy to join the concentration camps.
27 March 1942 : Operation Carriage on Saint-Nazaire.
5 April 1942 : Official installation of the Gestapo in occupied Zone.
18 April 1942 : Replacement of Darlan by Laval.
29 May 1942 : Ordinance of the German authorities in France which found the port of the yellow star.
16 June 1942 : Rencontre Laval Sauckel the principle of the Relève is accepted.
2 July 1942 : Agreements Bousquet - Oberg of police collaboration.
16 and 17 July 1942 : Raid of the cycle-racing track of winter.
August 1942 : Delivery with the Germans of foreign Jews of the Southern zone.
19 August 1942 : Obligatory military service (in the Wehrmacht) in the Moselle and a few days later in Alsace.
19 August 1942 : Failure of the Operation Jubilee.
16 October 1942 : Creation of a coordination committee of the movements of Resistance southern zone in France.
8 November 1942 : Operation Torch (American unloading in North Africa).
11 November 1942 : Occupation of the “free Zone” by the Germans.
27 November 1942 : Scuttling of the French fleet with Toulon.

1943

See also: 1943 in France

24 January 1943 : Battle of Marseilles.
26 January 1943 : The three main movements of the southern zone amalgamate in the plain Mouvements of Resistance (WALL).
30 January 1943 : Creation of the Militia.
16 February 1943 : STO.
4 April 1943 : Combined air raids of Boulogne-Billancourt.
27 May 1943 : Creation of the National council of Resistance (CNR).
30 May 1943 : Charles de Gaulle arrives at Algiers.
3 June 1943 : Creation of the French Committee of the national Release (CFLN).
21 June 1943 : Arrest by Gestapo of Jean Moulin, Raymond Aubrac, and the other resistant ones to Caluire-and-To cook, close to Lyon. Rene Hardy escapes.
8 July 1943 : Probable date of died of Jean Moulin.
5 October 1943 : End of the release of Corsica.
29 December 1943 : Creation of the French Forces of the interior (FFI).

1944

See also: 1944 in France

27 January 1944 : The Milice extends its activities in northern zone.
30 January 1944 : Beginning of the Conference of Brazzaville between De Gaulle and the representatives of the French Empire.
15 March 1944 : Program National council of Resistance (CNR).
22 March 1944 : Commit suicide of Pierre Brossolette to escape Gestapo.
26 March 1944 : Militiamans and Germans give the attack to the Maquis of Glières in Haute-Savoie.
1 April 1944 : Massacre of Ascq.
of the 23 to the 25 April 1944 : The Militia tackles the positions of French resistance in the Vercors.
of the 26 to the 31 May 1944 : Air raids combined on many French cities.
2 June 1944 : Creation of the GPRF (which replaces the CFLN) to Algiers: Provisional government of the French Republic, directed by Charles de Gaulle.
6 June 1944 : Day-J: The Opération Overlord is launched by the Allies, to invade the Normandy (D Day).
9 June 1944 : Hangings of Tulle.
10 June 1944 : Massacre of Oradour-on-Glane.
26 June 1944 : Cherbourg is released by American troops.
26 June 1944 : Beginning of the Operation Epsom by the British with the west of Caen.
of the 21 to the 23 July 1944 : The Germans take by storm the Maquis of Vercors.
1 August 1944 : Opening of Bradley in the south of Avranches.
15 August 1944 : Departure of the last convoy of deportees.
15 August 1944 : Franco-American unloading in Provence (operation Dragoon).
19 August 1944 : Beginning of the insurrection of Paris.
25 August 1944 :

Release of Paris.
Massacre of With a grid.

26 August 1944 : Catch of Toulon by the French De Lattre.
3 September 1944 : Release of Lyon.
1st October 1944 : Pétain and Laval are transferred by the Germans to Sigmaringen.
23 November 1944 : Leclerc and its 2nd dB releases Strasbourg.
10 December 1944 : Signature with Moscow of the Franco-Soviet pact.
16 December 1944 : German counter-offensive in the the Ardennes.

1945

See also: 1945 in France

2 January 1945 : Charles de Gaulle refuses the American order to evacuate Strasbourg.
27 January 1945 : The Bataille of the Ardennes finishes officially.
7 March 1945 : Crossing of the the Rhine by the Allies with Remagen and entered of the American troops in Germany.
7 May 1945 : The Germany goes without conditions to the Alliés, with Rheims the armistice is signed by the General Alfred Jodl (Germany), in the presence of Bedel-Smith (the United States), of the general Ivan Susloparov (Soviet Union) and of the general François Sevez (France).

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