France in WW2

The French have hated Germany since Germany was united in a single nation by Bismarck in the 1860s. This development, threatening to French continental domination, so upset the French that they picked a fight with the new German nation, started a war, and promptly lost (the Franco-Prussian War). As part of the humiliating peace of that war the French had to give up to Germany the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. This really stuck in the French craw, and they burned for revenge for the next forty years, and for the recovery of the lost provinces.

In WWI Germany invaded France, the French could not expel them, and an entire generation of Frenchmen were slaughtered trying. Finally, with help from her Allies, the Germans were beaten, the lost provinces recovered, and Germany's face mashed into and scrubbed around in it, in the humiliating peace terms imposed on the Germans in the peace after THAT war.

And none of this was forgotten when, twenty years later, the French and Germans went into WWII. This time, the Germans, once they started an active campaign against France, completely conquered France in six weeks.

So for patriotic Frenchmen, the Germans were unspeakably horrible, but there they were, all over the country. The French formed a Resistance movement, in which French Communists were very prominent, acting out of solidarity with their Soviet Communist brothers, whom the Germans were slaughtering on the Eastern Front. This Resistance - also called "the Maquis", or the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) - did what they could to damage the German war effort, much like Iraqis, whom we call "insurgents", are doing to the US today. Sabotage, ambushes, and so on. "Sabotage", the word, actually comes from the wooden shoes, "sabots" worn by French peasants.

All that being said, nations are made up of individuals, and each individual had his or her own reaction to the occupying Germans. The patriots felt as outlined above. Many women decided to make the best of things, and started dating German soldiers (after France was liberated, these women had their heads publicly shaved by the Resistance fighters). The Germans set up a puppet government in France, manned by "collaborationists", headed by the ancient Field Marshal Petain, then in his 80s. hero of WWI. This government was based in Vichy, France, and is called the Vichy regime. Many Frenchmen detested it, but it was the official government of France, and a German ally. As the French government it controlled the colonies of France, such as Morocco and Algeria, where the US landed troops in November, 1942. We do not always remember that for the first three or four days after those landings US troops fought French troops, under the orders of Vichy, until the Frenchmen quit and came over to our side.

After the war, there were a large number of criminal trials in France of persons who had collaborated with the Germans, and who faced death sentences. Many were executed.

But there are right-wing fascists in every country, including the US today. Many of these felt about things just like the Nazis, and were happy to see the Nazis in France, and wanted to help the Nazis. There was an entire SS division of Frenchmen, the Charlemange Division, fighting for Germany on the Eastern Front.

Today the French like to remember the Resistance, and forget the Charlemange Division. The answer to your question is as complicated as millions of individuals, with their varying reactions to the situation, could possibly make it.

The Chinese have had most of their land taken by Ghengis Khan's army of mongols during the height of the mongol empire (the main reason why the great wall was built.) But the Chinese recovered from the Calvary/archer attacks they'd put on villages, burning them down one by one. But don't forget, this once isolated band of competing tribes, clans, and warlords were brought together under a single banner. Teamwork does pay off in the end as they say! Kublai Khan founded the empire, and they spread to take over the middle east, eastern Europe, most of central and southern Asia, and even reaching into India and Egypt, becoming the world's largest empire. Not bad for a bunch of marauding mongols! So China had to face a great menace. They were fortunate that they recovered.

July 1940 to August 1944 .

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french forces did not expect the Germans to attack through the Ardennes Forest

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Without the Allied invasion in June 1944 there would have been no liberation, so credit must go to the supreme commander of the Allied armies, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Commanders in the field, such as Montgomery, Bradley, Patton and others also deserve mention.

Charles de Gaulle was a French general during World War II who led the free French forces. He founded and served as the first President of the French Fifth Republic from 1959-1969.

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France was on the Allies side during the second world war. However, Germany invaded France early in the war.

During World War II, the Soviet Union joined the ongoing hostilities because it was attacked by Germany on June 22, 1941. Despite having signed a non-aggression pact just two years prior, Germany and the Soviet Union would now engage in perhaps the most brutal struggle in modern warfare, which would only end with the end of the entire war in 1945.

The word for after in French is apres (with a slanted left downward accent on the e).

The fall of France was likely because of its geographical position. It was easy for Germany to attack France from the ground, sea and air. Germany also wanted to have a greater advantage of its geographical position to be able to cut British supplies.

1. Operation Barbarossa - June 1941 German invasion of Soviet Union. This brought The Soviet Union into the war.

2. Operation Overlord - June 1944 Allied invasion of mainland Europe. This opened a second front against Germany ( they were already fighting the Soviets in the East ), and caused the Germans to split their forces and resources.

D-Day and Pearl Habour in my opinion as the british were able to get onto the french soil and the Americans joined in after pearl harbour - but it is down to opinion to be fair

D-Day is Operation Overlord 6th June 1944!

The Americans would have joined the war in Europe anyway, with or without Pearl Harbour. My original answers are facts, my last comment is an opinion - there is a difference!

Gold Beach and Sword Beach

There were more than 2 during WW2, if you include North Africa, Italy, and the islands in the Pacific. This Q is posted under "France in WW2" so the appropriate answer would be (A) Normandy Beach and (B) Southern France.

(A) The landing in Northern France in Normandy was called Operation OVERLORD and consisted of 5 separate landing sites or beaches: Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha, Utah.

(B) Operation ANVIL (later Operation DRAGOON) landed Allied forces at St. Tropez area some 30 miles east of Toulon. The force consisted of the US VI Corps.

Charles de Gaulle had one, and only, wife in his life. She was Yvonne, born Yvonne Gendroux in 1900. She died in 1979. She was a very discreet woman, much liked by French people who nicknamed her "tante Yvonne" (Auntie Yvonne)

Largely because it was on the way to the Atlantic coastline, and Hitler thought it would give him a strong foothold in France.

Another motive was the large Jewish population there (est. 350,000 followers of Judaism). Approximately 49 concentration and extermination camps were established in Axis controlled France.

The allied invasion of Normandy was met by heavy gunfire even as they were landing on the beach.

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im pretty sure france re aquired alsace-lorraine from germany after world war one and they gained the saar under the league of nations control from germany im pretty sure france re aquired alsace-lorraine from germany after world war one and they gained the saar under the league of nations control from germany

According to a Wikipedia article, Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe, and Operation Neptune was the assault phase of Overlord.

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This actually means "good day", but this is what people say in the morning in French to greet each other.

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