Fall of France
1940 · Event
Germany defeats France in six weeks; Britain stands alone in western Europe.
On these timelines: Master, Germany, France, World War II, 1940: Britain's Darkest Hour
Around 1940
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)