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The capitulation of the Dutch army is signed.
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16765 |
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German forces cross over the River Meusse.
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16766 |
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Churchill visits Paris and hears that the French war is as good as over; The United Kingdom stands alone in Europe.
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16767 |
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Germans enter Brussels and also take Antwerp.
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16768 |
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Paul Reynaud forms new French government, including 84-year old Marshal Pétain, the French hero of World War I.
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16769 |
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Maxime Weygand replaces Maurice Gamelin as commander of the French armed forces.
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16770 |
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Antwerp captured.
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16771 |
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The massive German offensive against the Western front: The invasion of Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France begins.
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16772 |
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General Guderian's Panzer groups take Abbeville, threatening Allied forces in the area.
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16773 |
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Oswald Mosley, leader of the pre-war British fascists, is jailed; he and his wife will spend the duration in prison.
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16774 |