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French troops rush to defend France's border with Germany, along the heavily fortified Maginot Line
Roger Schutz establishes an ecumenical religious order at Taiz&eachute; in France
In To the Finland Station Edmund Wilson discusses the development of socialism and revolution, culminating in Lenin and Trotsky
The French rely on the heavily fortified Maginot Line to keep out the Germans, but they outflank it
Only two days after crossing the Netherlands border, a German division reaches the coast near Rotterdam
The caretaker government of the Netherlands surrenders to the German invaders
A German army races west through northern France, aiming to cut off the Allied troops in Belgium
German tanks reach the French coast at Abbeville, nine days after crossing the border from Germany
The Belgians surrender to the German armies encircling them north and south
Some 340,000 British and French troops have by now been rescued from Dunkirk, but a million Allied soldiers are now prisoners of the Germans
June 14 - a German army takes Paris and pushes on further south into the Rhone valley
Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of England, under the codename Operation Sea Lion
President Roosevelt, campaigning for a third term, asssures Americans that he will not send their sons to fight in Europe's war
Mussolini plans a new Roman empire, reaching like the first one round the entire Mediterranean
Adolf Hitler orders preparations to be made for Operation Barbarossa, his planned invasion of the Soviet Union
Agee and Evans give a warm personal view of America in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Greek soprano Maria Callas sings her first Tosca, in the opera house in Athens
Archibald Wavell's Allied divisions, after a rapid desert campaign, drive the Italians from the Libyan port of Tobruk
Adolf Hitler sends Erwin Rommel to save the Italians from looming disaster in north Africa
The Allies recover Ethiopia from the Italians and Haile Selassie returns to his throne in Addis Ababa
German forces evict the British from the island of Crete after a week-long battle
June 27 - the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appoints Tito to head a guerrilla force to resist the recent German invasion of the country
Less than four weeks after crossing the Russian border, a German army is within 200 miles of Moscow
Goering orders Reinhard Heydrich to prepare plans for the 'final solution of the Jewish queston'
Nazi experiments are carried out on Jews and Soviet prisoners of war to find effective means of murder by gas
