1940 - French government moves to Bordeaux
1940 - German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker
1940 - German 5th Armoured division occupies Rouen
1940 - Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1940 - Norway surrenders to Nazis
1940 - Canada declares war on Italy
1943 - FDR becomes 1st US president to visit a foreign country during wartime
1944 - Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
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