evacuation at dunkirk “operation dynamo”. skirting the maginot
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Evacuation at
Dunkirk
“Operation Dynamo”
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Skirting the Maginot
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Evacuation at Dunkirk
• As Germany advanced into Belgium in 1940, French and British troops had to retreat to the beaches of Dunkirk
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Evacuation at Dunkirk
• They found themselves trapped on the shore
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Evacuation at Dunkirk
• May 26, 1940 – Evacuation begins
• 900 ships sailed from England, rescuing 340 000 soldiers
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IMPORTANCE OF DUNKIRK: The Northern Allied army was trapped on the French beach; for 9 says, boats ferried across the English Channel from England to bring troops to safety; it remains the most successful military evacuation in history; many of Britain’s top military officials were rescued and they would fight another day
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Evacuation at Dunkirk• A few weeks after the evacuation, France
surrendered to Germany
• June 22, 1940 – France does what it does best.
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Want to learn German and Italian very quickly?• June 10th: Mussolini declares
war on France
• June 14th: Nazis enter Paris
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Vichy France• Town in southern France where
Marshall Petain, the Prime Minister governed
• It was a puppet regime of Nazi Germany, in which French officials cooperated and took direction from Hitler;
• It ended up sparing the south of France from becoming a devastated war zone.
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Marshall Petain and Hitler
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CHARLES DE GAULLE• leader of the French forces evacuated to
England in the Dunkirk evacuation. He would go on to assist at Normandy and later become President of France.
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Collaboration• Members of the
French government who cooperated with the Nazi’s, hence southern France was unoccupied by the Nazis.