MAPS OF HISTORY · The Road to War · ALL CHAPTERS · JUN 1940
The Road to War, 1931–1941 · THE MAP IN JUN 1940
JUN 1940 — The West falls
WHAT CHANGES ON THE MAP
| Denmark | Neutral & unaligned → Occupied — held by force |
| Norway | Neutral & unaligned → Occupied — held by force |
| Belgium | Neutral & unaligned → Occupied — held by force |
| Netherlands | Neutral & unaligned → Occupied — held by force |
| Luxembourg | Neutral & unaligned → Occupied — held by force |
| France | Democracies & powers fighting them → Occupied — held by force |
| Estonia | Neutral & unaligned → Aggressor clients & partners |
| Latvia | Neutral & unaligned → Aggressor clients & partners |
| Lithuania | Neutral & unaligned → Aggressor clients & partners |
ON THE GROUND
- the German-occupied zone: the north, Paris and the Atlantic coast, from June 1940
- the unoccupied “Free Zone” governed from Vichy — a collaborating client, not a conquest
- Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, seized by the USSR from Romania, June 1940
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