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3 September 1939
France
France declares war on Germany

11 October 1939
France
Daladier rejects Hitler's peace proposals

19 October 1939
Turkey
UK, France, and Turkey sign pact of mutual assistance

City of Alexandretta and surrounding territory transferred from French control to Turkey

12 November 1939
France
French government does not accept mediation

16 November 1939
Rumania
Rumanian offer to mediate rejected by British and French governments

23 September 1940
Japan
Vichy representatives request cessation of Japanese attacks in Indochina

24 October 1940
France
Hitler confers with Petain and Laval

Petain agrees in principle to consider mutual cooperation with Germany

18 December 1940
France
Vichy government appoints De Brinon ambassador to Germans in Paris

3 February 1941
France
Darlan and Laval consult with German Ambassador Otto Abetz

13 February 1941
France
Petain and Franco confer at Montpelier

27 May 1941
France
Paris Protocols: Admiral Darlan signs documents granting Germany access to airfields in the Levant, ports of Bizerte and Sousse for supplying Axis forces in North Africa, and Dakar as U-boat base

3 June 1941
France
Paris Protocols: Led by Weygand, Petain and his Council of Ministers refuse to accept Darlan's concessions to Germany in Paris Protocols

Vichy vows it will defend Syria and Tunisia against Allied incursions

14 June 1941
France
Paris Protocols: Other than Luftwaffe use of airfields in the Levant, Vichy concessions to Germany abandoned

30 June 1941
France
Vichy breaks diplomatic relations with Soviet Union

14 July 1941
France
Japanese ambassador presents Vichy with demands for air and naval bases in southern Indochina

21 July 1941
France
Vichy signs preliminary agreement to grant Japan air and naval bases in southern Indochina

23 July 1941
French Indochina
Admiral Decoux makes local arrangements to grant Japan air and naval bases in southern Indochina

24 July 1941
France
Vichy government makes final acceptance of Japanese demands for bases in southern Indochina

29 July 1941
France
Vichy signs final agreement to grant Japan air and naval bases in southern Indochina

29 April 1943
Germany
Laval visits Hitler

26 August 1943
Canada
Government recognizes French Committee of National Liberation

27 August 1943
Soviet Union
Government recognizes French Committee of National Liberation

China
Government recognizes French Committee of National Liberation

23 October 1944
France
De Gaulle's government formally recognized by United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom

2 December 1944
Soviet Union
De Gaulle arrives Moscow to meet with Stalin

10 December 1944
Soviet Union
Franco-Soviet alliance signed in Moscow



War Diary records on file for this subject through 6 September 1945: 29 

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