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| | World War II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | General Weygand had replaced General Gamelin as supreme Allied commander, but was unable to stop the Allied debacle in the battle of France. On June 22, France signed an armistice with Germany, followed by an armistice with Italy, which had entered the war on June 10. |
 | | On land the Allies took the offensive in New Guinea and landed (Aug. 7, 1942) on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. |
 | | The Allies, who had signed (Jan. 1, 1942) the United Nations declaration, were drawn closer together militarily by the Casablanca Conference, at which they pledged to continue the war until the unconditional surrender of the Axis, and by the Moscow Conferences, the Quebec Conference, the Cairo Conference, and the Tehran Conference. |
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