The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France.
The German plan for the invasion consisted of two main operations. In Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley, cutting off and surrounding the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium, to meet the expected German invasion. When British, Belgian and French forces were pushed back to the sea by the mobile and well-organised German operation, the British evacuated the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and several French divisions from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.
After the withdrawal of the BEF, the German forces began Fall Rot (Case Red) on 5 June. The sixty remaining French divisions made a determined resistance but were unable to overcome the German air superiority and armoured mobility. German tanks outflanked the Maginot Line and pushed deep into France. German forces occupied Paris unopposed on 14 June after a chaotic period of flight of the French government that led to a collapse of the French army. German commanders met with French officials on 18 June with the goal of forcing the new French government to accept an armistice that amounted to surrender.
On 22 June, the Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed by France and Germany, which resulted in a division of France. The neutral Vichy government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain superseded the Third Republic and Germany occupied the north and west. Italy took control of a small occupation zone in the south-east, and the Vichy regime was left in control of unoccupied territory in the south known as the zone libre. The Germans occupied the zone under Fall Anton in November 1942, until the Allied liberation in the summer of 1944.
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The period after the end of the Second World War saw the emergence of the United States as the pre-eminent military and economic power in the world. Every part of the world came under the purview of US interests. ... With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US became the only superpower in the world.
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The holocaust was the extermination of 6 million jews because he blamed them for losing the first world war
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Support grew for the abolitionist movement.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's <em>Uncle Tom's Cabin</em> tells the story of a slave man named Uncle Tom and his struggles under slavery. The novel deals with themes of discrimination, freedom, the condition of runaway slaves, and the many issues related to slavery and plantation masters.
With the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act, the liberty and even the life of slaves, runaway slaves and those desiring their freedom came crushing. This law allows a runaway slave to be captured and given back to their masters, at times being punished till death. So, with <em>Uncle Tom's Cabin</em>, the condition of slaves and their very survival came to be put to the fore. It helped build and grow support for the abolitionist movement and the freedom of slaves.
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