In December 1918, the Armistice ending World War I was about a month old, and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson headed to Europe for the Paris Peace Conference, which would begin in January 1919. Many U.S ...
Paris was gone, the French government collapsed, and on June 22, 1940 France signed an armistice on the very railway car that symbolized Germany’s humiliation in 1918. Germany now occupied most of ...