Battle of Narvik
Uses Dietl's survival and Narvik's recovery as propaganda success.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
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1940
Narvik Propaganda Victory
Uses the survival of Dietl's force as a German propaganda success.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Battle of France
Italy declares war on France and soon afterwards the French Government fled to the city of Bordeaux
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of France
Italy declares war on France
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Battle of France
Frances capital of Paris is occupied
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Capture of Paris
The Germans capture Paris
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Maginot Line
The Maginot Line is penetrated at Saarbrucken
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Fall Rot
German forces occupy Paris unopposed
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Siege of Paris
The Germans capture Paris
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Battle of France
Philippe Petain publicly announced France would ask for an armistice
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of France
Philippe Petain publicly announced France would ask for an armistice
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Armistice
Germany presents armistice terms to France
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Capture of Cherbourg
Rommels 7th Panzer Div captures Cherbourg
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Conference of Fuhrer
Plans for the defeat of Britain at the Fuhrer Conference
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Great Britain
Plans for the defeat of Britai at the Fuhrer Conference
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Sea Lion
Plans for the defeat of Britain at the Fuhrer Conference
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Battle of Britain
France surrenders to the Germans
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of France
An armistice is signed between France and Germany
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Switzerland
Germany starts planning the invasion of Switzerland, the day France surrendered
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Peace
The Pope writes a letter to Hitler offering mediation for "a just & honorable peace"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Capture of Channel Islands
Germany captures the Channel Islands
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Switzerland
After the Second Armistice at Compiegne in June 1940, the Reich Interior Ministry produced a memorandum on the annexation of a strip of eastern France from the mouth of the Somme to Lake Geneva, which was to be reserved for post-war German colonization.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Peace
After France's surrender peace negotiations take place in a railway carriage
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Result of Surrender of France
France enters armistice negotiations with Germany at Compiègne.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Surrender of France
The same railway carriage used to sign the Armistice in 1918. After France's surrender peace negotiations take place in a railway carriage
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Great Britain
Says preparations for invasion should begin immediately. Issues a directive saying a landing in England is possible
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Battle of Britain
Hopes that news of the preparations would frighten Britain into peace negotiations, issues "Directive No. 16; On the Preparation of a Landing Operation against England"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Battle of Britain
Issues Directive No. 16 ordering preparations for Operation Sea Lion.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Battle of Britain
Makes air superiority over Britain a prerequisite for the planned invasion.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Directive No. 16
Issues "Directive No. 16; On the Preparation of a Landing Operation against England"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Great Britain
Hopes news of the preparations of invasion will frighten Britain into peace negotiations
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Great Britain
Issues "Directive No. 16; On the Preparation of a Landing Operation against England"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Great Britain
Issues instructions to prepare for an invasion of Britain
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Sea Lion
Says invasion should commence by mid August but the services revise this to 15th Sept
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Fuhrer Chancellor
Hitler creates 12 general Field Marshals
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Peace
Hitler makes his last plea in a speech in the Reichstsag for Britain to make peace
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Sea Lion
Sets the latest date for "Sea Lion" as 15th September 1941
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Sea Lion
Plans to land 90,000 men in the 1st 6 days of the invasion of Britain
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Alliance Adolf Hitler and Spain and the capture of Gibraltar
Begins planning an alliance with Spain & the capture of Gibraltar
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Alliance Agreement with Spain & the capture of Gibraltar
Begins planning an alliance with Spain & the capture of Gibraltar
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
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