![]() ![]() ![]() They worked towards France being seen and treated as a major allied power, as opposed to a defeated and then liberated nation. The " Free French Forces" were a section of the French army which refused to recognize the armistice and continued to fight with the Allies. ![]() Unlike the other governments-in-exile in London, which were legitimate governments that had escaped their respective countries and continued the fight, France had surrendered to the Axis. It was a member of the Allies until its defeat in the German invasion of France in June 1940. ^ France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, two days after the German invasion of Poland.Following the outbreak of war later the same year, Beneš, in his exile, formed a Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee which after some months of negotiations regarding its legitimacy became regarded as the Czechoslovak government-in-exile by the Allies. In 1939 a German sponsored Slovak Republic seceded from the post-Munich Second Czechoslovak Republic, providing justification for the establishment of a German protectorate over the remaining Czech lands (the rump Carpathian Ruthenia region being annexed by Hungary). ^ Edvard Beneš, president of the First Czechoslovak Republic, fled the country after the 1938 Munich Agreement saw the Sudetenland region annexed by Germany.However the PKWN was allied with the Soviet Union and fought against Germany and the Polish Underground State. It fought against Axis Powers (mostly Germany), Soviet Union and the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN). ^ The Polish Underground State was allied with United Kingdom and United States. ![]()
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