Henri Philippe Petain16 June 1940
Forms the Vichy Government & gives orders for the British to leave France
France · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Forms the Vichy Government & gives orders for the British to leave France
Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain
Arrested & imprisoned by the Vichy Government, 1940-1945
Deserts from the Vichy Government & is sentenced to death
The Vichy Government has to pay reperations & disarm the Navy held in French ports
Laval is shot four times while reviewing the Legion des Volontaires Francais at Versailles, he survives his wounds and is returned to power in Vichy on April 18,1942
Interned by the Vichy Government & tried for betraying his country
Assassination of the Vichy leader in north Africa
Trials held by the Vichy Government of those responsible for the 1940 French collapse
Laval leaves Paris with the Germans, he joins the other Vichy exiles in Belfort and later in Sigmaringen, Germany
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