Permanent historical factsheet

Fall of Paris

Name: Fall of Paris – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1940Date range

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1Places

Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill14 June 1940

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Faces the strategic shock of Paris falling to Germany.

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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