On 10 June, Italy invaded France, declaring war on both France and the United Kingdom ; twelve days later France surrendered and was soon divided into German and Italian occupation zones, and an unoccupied rump state under the Vichy Regime.

After July 1940 and the establishment of the Vichy Regime, antisemitic aggressions accelerated the exodus, starting in July 1941 and continuing through 1942.

In 1939, with Germany ’ s invasion of France looming, Miró relocated to Varengeville in Normandy, and on May 20 of the following year, as Germans invaded Paris, he narrowly fled to Spain ( now controlled by Francisco Franco ) for the duration of the Vichy Regime ’ s rule.

Though many have read the play as having a strong anti-Nazi sentiment, the fact that the Vichy Regime allowed the piece to be performed without censure testifies to the fact that it was potentially seen as supportive of the occupation in its time.

The despised Nazi collaborators of the Vichy Regime contained many anti-Dreyfusards and their descendants.

The anti-semitic Vichy Regime would later close its eyes to the arrest of Dreyfus's Jewish granddaughter, Madeleine Levy, by the Gestapo.

The historian, Jean-Pierre Azéma, coined the term vichysto-résistant to describe those who at first supported the Vichy Regime ( mostly based on the patriotic image of Pétain rather than the Révolution Nationale ) but later joined the Résistance.

Although over half of the refugees had been repatriated to Spain ( or elsewhere ) by the time Pétain proclaimed the Vichy Regime in 1940, the 120, 000 to 150, 000 who remained became political prisoners, and the foreign equivalent to the Service du Travail Obligatoire, the Compagnies de Travailleurs Etrangers ( Companies of Foreign Workers ) or CTE, began to pursue them as slave laborers.

During this period, and particularly after de Gaulle's return to power in 1958, the collective memory of " résistancialisme " tended to propose a very much resistant France opposed to the collaboration of the Vichy Regime.

During the Second World War, Réunion was under the authority of the Vichy Regime until 30 November 1942, when Free French forces took over the island with the destroyer Léopard.

The Vichy Regime, on the other hand, promoted regional " folk " traditions.

The Vichy Regime willfully collaborated with Nazi Germany, taking state action against " undesirables ," including Jews, Protestants, gays, gypsies, and left-wing activists.

After the fall of France in 1940, the French colonies of Cameroun and French Equatorial Africa ( except for Gabon ) joined the Free French while the remainder sided with the Vichy Regime.

On 10 July 1940 he voted to give full constitutional power to the Maréchal Philippe Pétain, leading to the creation of the Vichy Regime.

In 1941, Antoine Pinay was appointed to the Conseil National of the Vichy Regime.

During Second World War, Action Française supported the Vichy Regime and Marshal Philippe Pétain.

Following France's surrender and Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government.

* In the film L ' Armée des Ombres, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, the character Luc Jardie ( played by Paul Meurisse ), while in London during the German occupation of France during World War II, imagines that his fellow countrymen will be truly liberated when they can see American films and once more read Le Canard enchaîné, alluding to the censorship of the Vichy Regime.

At first Frenay supported the Vichy Regime but was soon disillusioned by the Nazi tendency of the Pétain regime, and he subsequently formed the French Resistance group Mouvement de Liberation Nationale in 1940.

The Milice française ( French Militia ), generally called simply Milice, was a paramilitary force created on January 30, 1943 by the Vichy Regime, with German aid, to help fight the French Resistance.

France is also often counted among the Western Allies, because although the Vichy Regime collaborated with the Axis powers and fought the Allies, the Free French military forces played a major role against the Axis Powers throughout the war, similarly to many nations that endured military occupation and collaboration.

The Épuration légale ( French " legal purge "), the wave of official trials that followed the Liberation of France and the fall of the Vichy Regime, examined whether Trenet was guilty of collaboration but the inquiry resulted in a mere reprimand without any further consequences.

* The Sorrow and the Pity ( Le Chagrin et la pitié )( 1969 )-This film marked a turning point in the French debate about the Vichy Regime.

He left this movement in October 1940, to become a member of the secretariat general de la jeunesse of the Vichy Regime.

* 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.

* 1942 – World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers.

* 1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.

* 1940 – World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.

* 1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established.

* 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France ( Chef de l ' État Français ).

* 1942 – Holocaust: Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup ( Rafle du Vel'd ' Hiv ): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13, 152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.

* Otto Abetz: German Ambassador to Vichy France ( 1940 – 1944 )

Soon he would begin his own architectural practice with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret ( 1896 – 1967 ), a partnership that would last until the 1950s, with an interruption in the WWII years, due to Le Corbusier's ambivalent position towards the Vichy regime.

* 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces.

* 1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

* 1945 – World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.

* 1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

In 1941 during World War II, the Army of the Levant participated in a futile resistance to the British and Free French invasion that ousted the Vichy French from Syria during Syria – Lebanon Campaign.

* July 23 – WWII: French marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the Vichy government during WWII, goes on trial for treason.

* October 15 – WWII: Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, is shot to death by a firing squad for treason against France.

* October 10 – Joseph Darnand, Vichy France politician ( executed ) ( b. 1897 )

** Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13, 000 – 20, 000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

* November 10 – WWII: In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France, following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

* December 24 – French Admiral Darlan, the former Vichy leader who had switched over to the Allies following the Torch landings, is assassinated in Algiers.

* February 3 – WWII: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy France.

* June 16 – WWII: Royal Navy planes sink the Vichy French ship Chevalier Paul

* July 14 – WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms, ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.