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Vichy Government in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Vichy Government in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

27 records13 event labels6 people1940โ€“1942

Historical events in Vichy Government

1940

1940
Armistice
Henri Philippe Petain ยท World War, 2nd

The Vichy Government has to pay reperations & disarm the Navy held in French ports

1940
Arrest of Leon Blum
Leon Blum ยท World War, 2nd

Arrested & imprisoned by the Vichy Government, 1940-1945

1940
Capital
Henri Philippe Petain ยท World War, 2nd

The French Government moves to Vichy in unoccupied southern France

1940
Mobilization
Jean Francois Darlan ยท World War, 2nd

Orders the fleet to North Africa provoking attacks by the British Mediterranean fleet

1940
Reparations
Henri Philippe Petain ยท World War, 2nd

The Vichy Government has to pay reperations & disarm the Navy held in French ports

1940
Trial
Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle ยท World War, 2nd

Deserts from the Vichy Government & is sentenced to death

1940
Vichy Government
Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle ยท World War, 2nd

Deserts from the Vichy Government & is sentenced to death

1940
Vichy Government
Henri Philippe Petain ยท World War, 2nd

The Vichy Government has to pay reperations & disarm the Navy held in French ports

1940
Vichy Government
Leon Blum ยท World War, 2nd

Arrested & imprisoned by the Vichy Government, 1940-1945

16 June 1940
Constitution of France
Henri Philippe Petain ยท World War, 2nd

Forms the Vichy Government & gives orders for the British to leave France

16 June 1940
Vichy Government
Henri Philippe Petain ยท World War, 2nd

Forms the Vichy Government & gives orders for the British to leave France

July 1940
Vice Prime Minister
Pierre Laval ยท Military

Appointed Vice Prime Minister of France after the collapse of France

July 1940
Vice Prime Minister
Pierre Laval ยท World War, 2nd

Appointed Vice Prime Minister of France after the collapse of France

5 July 1940
Catapult
Henri Philippe Petain ยท World War, 2nd

Vichy breaks off dilomatic relations with Britain in response to Operation Catapult

October 1940
Vice Prime Minister
Pierre Laval ยท Vichy Government

Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain

October 1940
Vice Prime Minister
Pierre Laval ยท Military

Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain

October 1940
Vice Prime Minister
Pierre Laval ยท World War, 2nd

Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain

October 1940
Vichy Government
Pierre Laval ยท Vichy Government

Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain

October 1940
Vichy Government
Pierre Laval ยท Military

Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain

October 1940
Vichy Government
Pierre Laval ยท World War, 2nd

Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain

1941

1941
Vice Prime Minister
Jean Francois Darlan ยท Military

Appointed Vice Prime Minister of France in the Vichy Government

1941
Vice Prime Minister
Jean Francois Darlan ยท World War, 2nd

Appointed Vice Prime Minister of France in the Vichy Government

1942

1942
Trial
Pierre Laval ยท World War, 2nd

Blum & Daladier expose the trials & Vichy France loses American support

February 1942
Arrest of Edouard Daladier
Edouard Daladier ยท World War, 2nd

Interned by the Vichy Government & tried for betraying his country

February 1942
Exile of Edouard Daladier
Edouard Daladier ยท World War, 2nd

Deported to Germany & held there until the end of the war

February 1942
Vichy Government
Edouard Daladier ยท World War, 2nd

Interned by the Vichy Government & tried for betraying his country

11 November 1942
Political Support at Vichy Government
Jean Francois Darlan ยท World War, 2nd

France fully supports the Allies after the German occupation of Vichy France

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