The Game of France, 1940: German Blitzkrieg in the West, originally titled "The Battle for France, 1940", is a board wargame originally published by Simulations...
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Axis & Allies (redirect from Axis & Allies (board game))
France appears for the first time in the A&A board game series as a separate power with blue infantry units. Playable by combining A&A: Pacific 1940 and...
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of French forces in 1917. He came to power in World War II as a reaction to the stunning defeat of France in early 1940. Pétain blamed a lack of men...
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Europa (wargame) (redirect from The Fall of France)
The Western Campaign in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, 1940. The Fall of France (FoF), GDW 1981. Europa IX - Operations in the Near East. The Near...
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Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous...
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The 1939–40 Coupe de France football competition concluded with a final at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on 5 May 1940 between RC Paris, the winners...
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game divisions, and later as a brand of Hasbro. Some of these were originally developed independently and repackaged/republished by Avalon Hill. The games...
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Robert Paxton (redirect from Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944)
Writing in the late 1960s, what concerned me was not the comparison with defeated France but the confident swagger of the Germans in the summer of 1940." Today...
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The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. The top ten 1940 released...
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The 1940 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the eighth playing of the mid-summer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National...
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The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 British Technicolor historical fantasy film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and...
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Lester The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929) The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) – Lord Farquhar The Skin Game (1931) – Mr. Hillcrist – The Hillcrists These Charming...
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Arabian riff (redirect from Oh they don't wear pants on the sunny side of France)
using this melody include "The Girls in France" and "The Southern Part of France". The melody is often associated with the hoochie coochie belly dance...
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year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade. A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter...
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in May 1940, was approximately equivalent to four hundred million French francs. The artificial exchange rate of the Reichsmark versus the franc had...
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of German or Scandinavian origin, the earliest records appearing in there in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The game became popular in France in the...
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efforts of the Allied Powers, Free French forces in London and Africa, as well as the French Resistance. Nazi Germany invaded France in May 1940. Their...
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The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in the 1940s. Lists of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as...
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Allies: Europe 1940 not seen in earlier Axis & Allies series games include: France — for the first time in an Axis & Allies game, France is an independent...
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Charles de Gaulle (redirect from Charles de Gaulle of France)
1960 The Army of the Future (Vers l'Armée de Métier). Hutchinson, London-Melbourne, 1940. Lippincott, New York, 1940 France and Her Army (La France et son...
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France due to World War II. In England, several regional leagues are set up but statistics from these are not counted in players’ figures. The 1940 Summer...
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Ardennes (redirect from History of the Ardennes)
in the push towards Paris, and France fell on 25 June 1940. 1940 At the other end of the war, the Ardennes area came to prominence again during the Battle...
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played in France since 1934. As with rugby union, rugby league was introduced by the English and the heartland of the game is in the south of France. During...
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1930, Lithuania won the third edition of the Baltic Cup in Kaunas. On 13 October 1940, Lithuania played their final game for just shy of 50 years, a 4–3 win...
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scuttled in 1940 Dordogne (video game), a 2023 adventure game Grappu De La Dordogne (Dordogne grape, Dordogne vine) Duke Aymon, also known as Duke of Dordogne...
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1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in December 1940: Greek troops...
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Sigmaringen enclave (redirect from French Governmental Commission for the Defense of National Interests)
of wartime collaboration and has been the subject of historical analysis and cultural depictions. Nazi Germany invaded France in May 1940 during the early...
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Lyon (redirect from Lyon, France)
Lyon is the third-largest city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi)...
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& Allies: Pacific 1940 is a board game created by Larry Harris and published by Avalon Hill as part of the Axis & Allies family of games. It is considered...
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