Similiar to Operation Desert Storm (January/February 1991); only 45 days.
In 1940, Germany launched its attack on Western Europe. It was a massive invasion that swept over the lowlands including Belgium. Not long after the fall of Belgium, France was then successfully invaded and surrendered.
Before World War I, Germany clashed with both Great Britian and France over conflicting imperialist ambitions in Africa.
Germany was first unified in 1871. From 1815-1866 it consisted of 39 largely independent states. In 1792, before the invasions by Revolutionary France, Germany consisted of over 250 (!) states.
Yes they fought for as long as they could. France was taken over by Germany, but they had rebels who continued to fight.
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France gained the provinces called Alsace and Lorraine. They originally were a part of France, but then the Germans took over the provinces during the Franco-Prussian War before World War I. After World War I, France gained them back.
In WWII, Germany took over France in 1940. Italy wasn't involved, it didn't join the war until 1941.
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he wanted Germany to pay for the great damage of France, Germany destroyed over half of Frances population. Clemenseau wanted to warm & scare Germany into not invading France again. He wanted the Rhineland cleared of German soldiers so that the remaining people of France can be safer & have more freedom than before the war.
France, England, Britain, and Russia took over Germany after World War 2.