WW2 · TURNING POINT ·
Armistice at Compiègne (1940)
22 Jun 1940 — France signs in the same railway carriage used for Germany’s 1918 surrender.
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- Turning point
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- Fall of France (chapter 3 of WW2)
- Atlas
- The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
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- WWI · Road to WW2
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