Editing Timeline of SOE French Section (section)

==1940==
:'''19 June'''
::British [[Prime Minister]] [[Winston Churchill]] wrote a memorandum proposing to create an organization "to coordinate all action by way of subversion and sabotage against the enemy overseas.<ref name="Cookridge">{{cite book |last1=Cookridge |first1=E. H. |title=Set Europe Ablaze |date=1967 |publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell Company |location=New York |page=1}}</ref> The army of [[Nazi Germany]] was in the process of occupying many countries of Europe, including France which would initially be divided into the Occupied Zone and the unoccupied or "Free Zone." ([[Vichy France]])
[[File:France map Lambert-93 with regions and departments-occupation.svg|250px|right|France in World War II.]]
:'''22 July'''
::The Special Operations Executive was created with [[Hugh Dalton]], the [[Minister of Economic Warfare]], appointed at its head.<ref name="Cookridge"/> Dalton said that Churchill told him to "set Europe ablaze."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton 1940–45|last=Dalton|first=Hugh|publisher=Jonathan Cape|year=1986|isbn=022402065X|pages=[https://archive.org/details/secondworldwardi0000dalt/page/62 62]|url=https://archive.org/details/secondworldwardi0000dalt/page/62}}</ref>