Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An mamaye Faransa kuma an mallake ta bayan wani mummunan yakin basasa a watan Mayu-Yuni 1940. A karkashin yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta
, an raba ƙasar zuwa yankuna biyu: yanki a arewacin rabin ƙasar (ciki har da Paris) a ƙarƙashin aikin soja na Jamus kai tsaye da kuma "Yankin Kyauta" a Kudancin da ke ƙarƙashin mulkin Vichy mai zaman kanta a ƙarƙashin Marshal Philippe Pétain. Rashin jin daɗi da tashin hankali a ɓangarorin biyu sun haifar da fitowar Resistance na Faransa wanda, a shekara ta 1942, ya zama babban motsi.