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===Armistice===
{{Main|Armistice of 22 June 1940}}
[[File:Hitler and german-nazi officers staring at french marechal foch statue 21 June 1940.png|thumb|Hitler (hand on hip) staring at [[Marshal of France|Marshal]] [[Ferdinand Foch|Foch]]'s statue. The [[Glade of the Armistice]] was later destroyed (except Foch's statue) by the Germans.]]
Discouraged by the hostile reaction in the cabinet to a [[United Kingdom|British]] proposal for a [[Franco-British union#World War II (1940)|Franco-British Union]] and believing his ministers no longer supported him, Prime Minister [[Paul Reynaud]] resigned on 16 June. He was succeeded by [[Marshal of France|Marshal]] [[Philippe Pétain]], who delivered a radio address to the French people, announcing his intention to ask for an [[armistice]] with Germany. When Hitler received word from the French government that they wished to negotiate an armistice, he selected the [[Forest of Compiègne]], the site of the [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)|1918 Armistice]], as the venue.{{sfn|Evans|2000|p=156}}

On 21 June 1940, Hitler visited the site to start the negotiations, which took place in the railway carriage in which the 1918 Armistice was signed.{{sfn|Dear|Foot|2001|p=326}} After listening to the preamble, Hitler left the carriage in a calculated gesture of disdain for the French delegates and negotiations were turned over to [[Wilhelm Keitel]], the [[Chief of Staff]] of [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht]] (OKW). The armistice was signed on the next day at 6:36&nbsp;p.m. (French time), by General Keitel for Germany and General [[Charles Huntziger]] for France and came into effect at 12:35&nbsp;a.m. on 25 June, once the Franco-Italian Armistice had been signed, at 6:35&nbsp;p.m. on 24 June, near Rome.{{sfn|Frieser|2005|p=317}}

====Italy====
[[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] declared war on France and Britain on the evening of 10 June, to take effect just after midnight. The two sides exchanged air raids on the first day of war but little transpired on the [[Alps|Alpine]] front, since both France and Italy had adopted a defensive strategy. There was some skirmishing between patrols and the French forts of the {{lang|fr|[[Ligne Alpine]]}} exchanged fire with their Italian counterparts of the {{lang|it|[[Vallo Alpino]]}}. On 17 June, France announced that it would seek an armistice with Germany and on 21 June, with a Franco-German armistice about to be signed, the Italians launched a general offensive all along the Alpine front, with the main attack in the northern sector and a secondary advance along the coast.{{sfn|Frieser|2005|p=317}} The offensive was conducted by 32 Italian divisions and penetrated a few kilometres into French territory, against the [[Army of the Alps#20th Century|Army of the Alps]] (General [[René Olry]]) which held the frontier with three divisions. The coastal town of [[Menton]] was captured but on the Côte d'Azur the invasion was held up by a French NCO and seven men.{{sfn|Horne|1982|p=631}} On the evening of 24 June, a [[Franco-Italian Armistice]] was signed at [[Rome]] and came into effect at the same time as the [[Armistice of 22 June 1940|Second Armistice at Compiègne]] with Germany (22 June),  just after midnight on 25 June.{{sfn|Frieser|2005|p=317}}