France during World War II

The following are articles about the topic of France during World War II:


 * Military history of France during World War II history of the French military 1939-1945
 * Armée de l'Air, the French air force at the start of the war
 * Maginot Line and Alpine Line of fortifications and defences along the borders with Germany and Italy
 * Phoney War, or drôle de guerre ("funny war"), the period of little military activity between the invasion of Poland and April 1940.
 * Anglo-French Supreme War Council set up to organize a joint strategy against Germany
 * Battle of France - in which the French were defeated and the British evacuated in May and June 1940.
 * Free French Forces of the government-in-exile in London, and in France after the Liberation, fighting on the Allies' side from 1940 under general de Gaulle
 * Free French Air Force
 * Free French Naval Forces
 * Vichy France state established in the non-occupied Zone libre, officially neutral and independent until invaded by Germany and the Allies in 1942 under marshal Pétain
 * Vichy French Air Force
 * German occupation of France during World War II
 * Italian occupation of France during World War II
 * French Resistance and the National Council of the Resistance which coordinated the various groups that made up the resistance
 * Service du travail obligatoire - the provision of French citizens as forced labour for construction in Germany
 * The Holocaust in France
 * Liberation of France
 * Operation Overlord - the invasion of northern France by the western Allies in June 1944
 * Operation Dragoon - the invasion of southern France by the western Allies in August 1944
 * Liberation of Paris - the freeing of the French capital in August 1944
 * Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine - advance as the right flank of the western front into Alsace-Lorraine in 1944
 * Western Allied invasion of Germany - invasion as the right flank of the western front of Baden-Würtemberg in 1945