Case Red
1940 · Event
The second phase of the German offensive breaks the Weygand Line on the Somme and Aisne and overruns France.
On these timelines: France, World War II, Master, Germany
More from France
- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
Around 1940
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)