French: Resistance Flashcards
1
Q
De Gaulle Call to Honour
A
18 June 1940
2
Q
de Gaulle arrival at Algiers
A
- 30 May 1943
- Gave de Gaulle access to 120,000 French soldiers
- set up the Comite Francais de Liberation Nationale (CFLN)
3
Q
Newspapers
A
- Liberation
- Resistance
- Pantagruel
- Combat
- Liberation-Nord
- Ceux de la Resistance
4
Q
Movements
A
- MUR by Jean Moulin in 1943
- Conseil National de la Resistance unified the northern groups in 1943 and incorporated the communist Front National
5
Q
Communist activity
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- Assassination of a German Officer on 20 October 1941 in Nantes
- Invasion of Soviet Union in June 1941 changed things
- Act of sabotage in derailing a train at Epinay-sur -Seine in July 1941
6
Q
Occupation of Vichy zone
A
1942
7
Q
STO
A
- 1943
- By July 1943 in Ariege the number of refractaires numbered 81% of those eligible for STO- up from 13% in March
8
Q
Historiography
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- Kedward argues that the complexity of a united resistance was a positive sign in its plurality and diversity rather than fragmentation
- Julian Jackson argues that resistance never became a mass movement
- Julian Jakson argues that the communist resistance was never a smooth machine
9
Q
Free French
A
-an 8 member national committee created in September 1941 by de Gaulle
10
Q
-German reprisals
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- Massacre of Ascq
- Ruling by Field Marshal Keitel in September 19431 that for every German soldier killed betweeen 50 and 100 hostages would be shot.
