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Guard (Vichy France) Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon. Service du travail obligatoire - the provision of French citizens as forced labour in Germany. Axis occupation of France: German occupation of France during World War II - 1940–1944 in the northern zones, and 1942–1944 in the southern zone. The Holocaust in France.
The "Big Three" Allies of World War II, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, all fought Germany in World War II, but Soviet Union fighting on the Eastern Front played no direct role in the liberation of France, but the second front contributed to Nazi defeat.
The Franco-British Union was a proposed union in the 20th century to unite the United Kingdom and the Republic of France during the second World War. This hypothetical union would have united their militaries, government, and the foreign policy of both nations.
Operation Dragoon landings in southern France 1944-08-15: ... History of Strasbourg: ... End of World War II in Europe (Germany surrenders; ...
Nord, Philip: France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era, Princeton University Press 2010. Paxton, Robert O.: Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944, 2nd ed. 2001. Rossi, Mario: "United States Military Authorities and Free France, 1942–1944." Journal of Military History (1997) 61#1 pp: 49–64.
Wider European history between World War II and the fall of Communism in Europe 1945–1992. End of World War II in Europe; Cold War; Revolutions of 1989; German reunification; Yugoslavia and the European Economic Community; Breakup of Yugoslavia; Wider European history after the creation of the European Union. Maastricht Treaty; History of the ...
2017 – Start of Brexit: On 29 March 2017, the Government of the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. The UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 at 11 p.m. GMT , when the period for negotiating a withdrawal agreement was set to end
The French Fourth Republic was the republican government of France from 27 October 1946 to 4 October 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution of 13 October 1946. It was in many ways a revival of the Third Republic, which governed from 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War to 1940 during World War II, and it suffered many of the same ...