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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 |
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The British make a final decision to cease operations in Norway.
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16775 |
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The Allied forces, British and French alike, retreat to Dunkirk. Hitler orders a halt to the advance of Germans toward the Allied beachhead and allows Goering to use the Luftwaffe to attack. British R.A.F. defends the beachhead.
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16776 |
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Sporadic Luftwaffe bombings in England.
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16777 |
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Boulogne-sur-Mer surrenders to the Germans.
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16778 |