de Gaulle and Churchill

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    Janka Varnai

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    • When and where did they first meet?
      9 June 1940 . de Gaulle was sent to London to request more assistance from the British Air Force
    • What did they agree on?
      A join British and French invasion of Vichy controlled countries of Syria and Lebanon
      France
    • Who was de Gaulle?
      Brigadier general in the French army
      Appointed to deputy minister of Defence
      Called his followers Free French
    • What did they think of each other?
      Churchill loved France
      Churchill refused to accept de Gaulle as the new leader of France
    • What did they disagree on?
      British occupation of Madagascar
      de Gaulle refused to cooperate with USA's favoured French resistance leader
      de Gaulle wouldn't work closely with former Vichy leader in North Africa - embarrassed Churchill
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