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To head Ethiopian forces in Brit's Kenya Colony
RAF attacks German lines leading to Rouen and the Seine
Washington, on way to Galway from Lisbon, halted by submarine, permitted to go on; Brit deny responsibility
French defenses along Marne break under German tank attacks
Vargas backs virile peoples, scorns sterile democracy, s commemorating naval battle with Paraguay; later proclaims Brazil neutral in Ital-Allied war
1940Jacques Brassard, Canadian educator and politician[â ]
Jacques Brassard is a former Quebec politician and Cabinet Minister. He was the National Assembly of Quebec for Lac-Saint-Jean from 1976 to 2002 and occupied several portfolios as a Minister under the Parti Québecois governments of René Lévesque, Pierre-Marc Johnson, Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry.
1940World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.[â ]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.