What happened to the French Third Republic during World War II?
It fell to Nazi forces
It joined the Axis Powers
It remained neutral
It joined the Allied Powers
Answer
The French Third Republic fell less than a year after the outbreak of World War II when Nazi forces occupied much of France. It was replaced by the rival governments of Charles de Gaulle's Free France and Philippe Pétain's French State.
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