338,326 British forces and 113,000 French forces were evacuated from Dunkirk to Britain. The German Luftwaffe ceased bombardment of Dunkirk. 5 June: The second part of the Battle of France began with the Germans striking south from the River Somme. 9 June: German forces launched an offensive on Paris. 10 June: Norway surrendered to German forces and Italy joined the war by declaring war on France and Great Britain. 12 June: The 51st Highland Division surrendered to German forces due to being surrounded. 13 June: Paris was declared an open city by the French government as the government fled to Bordeaux. 14 June: German troops entered the French capital of Paris. 16 June: French Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of France, replacing Paul Reynaud. Operation Aerial and Operation Cycle took place by evacuating around 150,000 Allied soldiers from French ports of Cherbourg, St. Malo, Brest, St. Nazaire, La Pallice, Nantes, and Le Havre. 17 June: Petain asked Germany for armistice terms. Finishing off some Allied resistance, the Germans crossed the river Loire and reached the Swiss frontier. 18 June: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in Munich Germany. General de Gaulle told the people of France on a broadcast from London on the BBC to resist the Germans. 22 June: France signed an armistice with Germany. 23 June: Adolf Hitler toured captured Paris. 24 June: The French officially surrendered at Compiegne, the site of the German World War I surrender. Notes and references Sheffield, Gary. "BBC - History - World Wars: The Fall of France." BBC News. BBC, 30 Mar. 2011. Web. 28 Mar. 2017. Horne, Alistair. To Lose a Battle: France 1940. Penguin UK, 2007. Bond, Brian. The Battle for France & Flanders: Sixty Years On. Pen and Sword, 2001. "BBC - History - Churchill Becomes Prime Minister (pictures, Video, Facts & News)." BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2017. The Battle of France 1940." Theriflesww1.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2017. Evans, Elinor. "The Fall of France: Hitler's Greatest Gamble." History Extra. BBC History Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2017. Web. 30 Mar. 2017. <http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-history-magazine/fall-france-hitler%E2%80%99s-greatest-gamble>. "The Battle of France." RAF Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2017. <http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/history-of-the-battle-of-britain/the-battle-of-france.aspx>. Battle of France Chronology of World War II