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13 ore fa · The Italian invasion of France (10–25 June 1940), also called the Battle of the Alps, [a] was the first major Italian engagement of World War II and the last major engagement of the Battle of France . The Italian entry into the war widened its scope considerably in Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. The goal of the Italian leader, Benito ...
3 giorni fa · Just before 6:00 pm on July 3, 1940, the British opened fire, initiating the first naval battle between Britain and France since the Napoleonic Wars. The battleship Bretagne exploded when a British salvo struck its ammunition magazine, and the battleships Provence and Dunkerque were so badly damaged that their captains were forced to ...
4 giorni fa · The obvious collapse of France convinced Mussolini that the time to implement his Pact of Steel with Hitler had come, and on June 10, 1940, Italy declared war against France and Great Britain.
3 giorni fa · Overview of the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, 1940. See all videos for this article. France’s 800,000-man standing army was thought at the time to be the most powerful in Europe.
2 giorni fa · French President Emmanuel Macron is on the Ile-de-Sein in western Brittany to commemorate the historic 18 June 1940 radio broadcast from London by General Charles de Gaulle, who made the "call to ...
2 giorni fa · In 1940, France's former president and then-General Charles de Gaulle recorded a historic speech that many consider the start of the French resistance during World War II. Here are some facts you ...
1 giorno fa · The German occupation of Norway in April 1940, the rapid conquest of the Low Countries and France in May and June, and the Italian entry into the war on the Axis side in June transformed the war at sea in general and the Atlantic campaign in particular in three main ways:
