The Nazis at War: The Fall of France (TRIH ep 622, part 3)
1940 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History focuses on the climax of Germany's 1940 western campaign: the pocketing of Allied forces on the Channel, the Halt Order that allowed the Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo), and the subsequent collapse and political disintegration of France culminating in the fall of Paris and the June 1940 armistice.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1940
- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Korean War (1950)
- The Holocaust (1933)