What is the French city from which allied troops were evacuated in May 1940?

338,000 Allied troops (mostly British) were evacuated from Dunkirk in northern France beteen 28 May and 2 June 1940.

Allied troops were evacuated across the English Channel

You are probably thinking about Dunkirk which is a French port on the English Channel (la Manche) where 338,000 mostly British (but some French) troops were evacuated in June 1940 from the advancing German army.

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338,000 Allied troops (mostly British) were evacuated from the beaches to escape from the advancing German Army.

There were two major evacuations during World War II. When war was declared in 1939, children were evacuated from towns and cities to be safe from enemy bombing. In June 1940, around 350,000 allied troops (mostly British) were evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in northern France and brought back to Britain.

A major French seaport during World War I was Calais. It was the major port which had English Channel connections. Calais and Dunkirk are also the routes allied forces soldiers were evacuated in 1940.

Operation Dynamo - the evacuation of 338,000 Allied troops from the French port of Dunkirk - took place between 27 May and 3 June 1940.

338,000 (mostly) British and French troops were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in Northern France in late May and early June 1940. 'Operation Dynamo' has been referred to as 'The Miracle of Dunkirk' as only about 30,000 troops had been expected to escape. Most of their equipment had to be left behind but the troops escaped and became the nucleus of the enlarged British Army.

In World War II, the 1940 invasion of France by Germany quickly led to a "cornering" of French and British troops at a port called Dunkirk (or, in French Dunkerque). Surrounded by German infantry and armor while being battered by German warplanes, over 300,000 of the cornered soldiers were evacuated by sea before the pocket finally collapsed.

Dunkirk, June 1940

The evacuation of British and Allied troops from Dunkirk in Northern France.

The main part of the British Army was retreating from the collapse of the French Army under assault by Germany in the spring of 1940. The Royal Navy had very little amphibious capability at that time, and there was no way that the Navy would be able to lift the Army off of the shore. In one of those "miracles" that cannot be planned or orchestrated, English fishermen, pleasure boaters, ferry operators, and anybody who…

The evacuation of 338,000 Allied (mostly British) troops from the beaches in late May and early June 1940

The evacuation of nearly 340000 Allied troops from the beaches at Dunkirk took place between 26th May 1940 and 4th June 1940.

The Ardennes were in a sense comfortable in defending themselves in the wake of the advance of Allied troops in 1944. This was in part because they were familiar with its terrain. In 1940, they had knifed through it in a few days to outflank the Marginot Line and roll up the French and British armies.

The Dunkirk evacuation took place from May 26 - June 3, 1940. It was a total withdrawal of French and British troops after a massive advance by Germany following the battle of Dunkirk. It is commonly referred to as "the miracle of Dunkirk" because of how many allied soldiers managed to escape alive. At the start, only a few thousand troops were able to be evacuated, but this number quickly grew to over 300,000. Over…

This is known as the battle of Dunkirk. The British and French troops retreating towards Dunkirk in 1940 were rescued by a float of British ships.

The evacuation of 338.000 allied (mainly British) troops from the beaches after having been driven back by the advancing German army.

In May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Holland. Germany invaded Holland in 1940 where as a part of Germany's strategy to invade France. The invasion of the low countries effectively allowed them to bypass the French Maginot line and exploit a gap in the French lines who didn't think that German panzer divisions could get through the Ardennes forest (Belgium). These forces then circled behind the entire BEF and large amounts of the French army. German…

The Siege of Calais and the evacuation of British and French troops at Dunkirk, France.

The evacuation of 338,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk from 28 May until 4 June 1940

By the end of 1940, Nazi troops occupied around 12 European countries, but many more were under Nazi control or allied to the Nazis, just not with German troops in. If you're America, it might be worth noting that Britain wasn't invaded by the Nazis. Not ever.

28th May - 4th June 1940

No- following the evacuation of Dunkirk in May 1940, the remnants of the French Army who had been evacuated by Britain were based in England, but they came under the seperate military command of General Charles de Gaulle.

Dunkirk wasn't a raid, it was an evacuation of around 350,000 Allied (mainly British) troops in may 1940 in the face of advancing German troops. It was a major defeat of the British and French armies but logistically very successful because they were able to evacuate 10 times as many soldiers than expected although they had to leave most of their equipment behind.

The Battle of Dunkirk. British soldiers were evacuated by the Royal Navy and by private fishing boats and Yachts which were commandeered to help the evacuation effort. Tens of thousands of British soldiers were evacuated and avoided being cut off from the rest of Europe by the German Blitzkrieg, which charged right through Belgium and into France.

In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and surround the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium. During the fighting, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and many French soldiers…

I'm pretty sure its France. The Gerrman army went through the Ardenne forest to the Belgian border defense line and flanked the Allied army in Belgium... The Allies thought the Germans were gonna pass through Belgium and then to France. The Blitzkrieg was used against the French. They were ill prepared to defeat the Nazis. The French leaders capitulated and surrendered against the will of the French people. The Ardenne Forest and Allied battle was…

D-Day was name given to 6 June 1944, which was the day that the Allied Forces launched an invasion of France to free that country from German control. At that time, France was occupied by Nazi Germany and ruled by a puppet government known as the Vichy government, because its headquarters were in the town of Vichy. The forces defending Normandy were German army troops from a variety of different sources. The German troops included…

It wasn't evacuated. It became a ghost town when the mine closed in 1940 and by 1942 no one lived in Ruby.

In excess of 300,000

With the Allied Powers, but after the Germans successfully took Northern France in 1940, the remainder of France known as Vichy France collaborated with the Axis Powers until France was regained in 1944.

In the summer of 1940, 338000 British and French troops were evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in Northern France after having been thoroughly beaten by superior German Forces. It was one of the worst defeats the British Army has ever suffered but propaganda at the time made it sound like a victory. There is no doubt that the logistics of the evacuation were nothing short of a miracle.

France was initially an Allied power, but later part of the Axis. After the fall of France in 1940 during the German blitz, some elements of "Free France" took shelter overseas. However, the portions of France to the south not under German control were administered by the successor French Government, or Vichy France, which was led by none other than Petain, the hero of Verdun. Vichy France sided with the Axis Powers, and the first…

Operation Dynamo, carried out by volunteers at Dunkirk in 1940, rescued 350,000 British and French soldiers and transported them to England.

Im not sure .I think it was in the year 1940

The evacuation of 338.000 allied (mostly British) troops from the beaches at Dunkirk in late May/early June 1940.

Allies and Enemies, France was a ally until 1940 after which the Vichy French government actively opposed Britain and the USA, Vichy french troops fought against the British in Syria and US Troops at Operation Torch when they landed n Algeria. Over 8000 French volunteers were in the Waffen SS Charlemagne (1st French). The French Navy at Oran in 1940 would not come out and Join the Royal Navy or as offered by Churchill sail…

The battle and evacuation at Dunkirk lasted from 24 May 1940 until 4 June 1940. During 11 days of hectic transport, using every kind of vessel imaginable, more than 338,000 troops were evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk, which were soon under ferocious attack by the advancing German forces.

saved over 300,000 troops by sending out nearly anything that would float. .................................................................................................. In June 1940 the British Expeditionary Force, together with The French and Belgian armies, were cut off by German forces because they were utterly unprepared for the strength of the latter. They retreated to Dunkirk, and during the course of the next nine days 200,000 British and 140,000 French soldiers were evacuated by a total of some 850 ships. This saved the…

the Axis Powers.

Of course, no: parts of Romania were invaded by Soviet troops in June 1940 and by Hungarian troops in August 1940.

General Charles de Gaulle organized the Free French Forces in England. He fought with the allies until France was free. Special note: The French underground, Free Forces and the civilians defeated the Germans in Paris, not the Allied Forces. They did it themselves. Hurray for the French.

1940. In the spring and early summer. The work was finished when we evacuated from Dunkirk at the beginning of June 1940. Then the Battle of Britain began in August.

RC Paris were the French football champions in 1940.

Operation Dynamo was the evacuation of around 338,000 allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in Northern France between 28 May and 4 June 1940. They managed to escape before they were about to be surrounded by the advancing German Army.

Germany and Italy, its two WWII allies.

1940 Tuesday, June 6, 1944 is the correct answer.

In 1940 France was ruled by a french president.