1. Evacuation at
Dunkirk
“Operation Dynamo”

2. Skirting the Maginot

7. Evacuation at Dunkirk
As Germany advanced into Belgium in 1940, French and British troops had to retreat to the beaches of Dunkirk

8. Evacuation at Dunkirk
They found themselves trapped on the shore

9. Evacuation at Dunkirk
May 26, 1940 – Evacuation begins
900 ships sailed from England, rescuing soldiers

10. IMPORTANCE OF DUNKIRK: The Northern Allied army was trapped on the French beach; for 9 says, boats ferried across the English Channel from England to bring troops to safety; it remains the most successful military evacuation in history; many of Britain’s top military officials were rescued and they would fight another day

11. Evacuation at Dunkirk
A few weeks after the evacuation, France surrendered to Germany
June 22, 1940 – France does what it does best.

12. Want to learn German and Italian very quickly?
June 10th: Mussolini declares
war on France
June 14th: Nazis enter Paris

13. Vichy France
Town in southern France where Marshall Petain, the Prime Minister governed
It was a puppet regime of Nazi Germany, in which French officials cooperated and took direction from Hitler;
It ended up sparing the south of France from becoming a devastated war zone.

14. Marshall Petain and Hitler

15. CHARLES DE GAULLE
leader of the French forces evacuated to England in the Dunkirk evacuation. He would go on to assist at Normandy and later become President of France.

16. Collaboration
Members of the French government who cooperated with the Nazi’s, hence southern France was unoccupied by the Nazis.