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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 [1] near Compiègne, France by officials of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic. It became effective at midnight on 25 June.
Franco-Italian Armistice, also known as the Armistice of Villa Incisa, signed on 24 June 1940 between France and Italy, which ended the Italian invasion of France Second Armistice of Belgrade , signed on 17 April 1941 between the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Axis powers
Military divisions of Vichy's Armistice Army during the period 1940-1942. The Armistice Army (French: Armée de l'Armistice) or Vichy French Army (French: Vichy Armée française) was the armed forces of Vichy France permitted under the terms of the Armistice of 22 June 1940.
The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 (Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940.The intense early-season "panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan.
Left to right: Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder partially obscured and Walther von Brauchitsch in front of the Armistice carriage. The Compiègne Wagon was the train carriage in which both the Armistice of 11 November 1918 and Armistice of 22 June 1940 were signed.
The German Armistice Commission (German: Waffenstillstandskommission, WAKO) was a military body charged with supervising the implementation of the Franco-German Armistice, signed on 22 June 1940, in German-occupied France during World War II. [1]
The 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 the Second World War. On 10 June 1940, Italy declared war on France while the latter was already on the verge of defeat in its war with Germany .
Armistice with France (Second Compiègne), 1940 Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre between British forces in the Middle East and Vichy France forces in Syria, 1941 Armistice with Italy , formal agreement of warring parties, the Allies and Italy, to stop fighting that was signed on 3 September 1943 by Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano.