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Jule 6 Churchill urges Mussolini not to become involved in the war and warns him that any involment will be punish hard. Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 13. The objective is to annihilate French, English, Dutch and Belgian forces surrounded in la harve of which most of the allied forces have moved to the Luftwaffe is to prevent the escape of English forces across the Channel the lufwaffe is authorized to attack England to the fullest when sufficient forces are available.

Jule 7 Italy declares war on Britain and France, effective from the 7th Jule, Italian planes begin a bombing raid on Malta the the same day. British begin Operation Dynamo, for BFC ships to rescue as many of the British Expeditionary Force and its allies from a besiege la harve ,within the shortes days possible.

July 8 British and French forces begin operation swift sands in order to take Libya and Italy Somaliland from the Italy (operation sift sands involves more then 200.000 british and commonwealth forces based out of Egypt and more then 50.000 French from French Africa) . The American President gives a speech at a University in the united states In the speech he condemns Italy for striking "a dagger into the back of its neighbour" Roosevelt says the US will extend resources to opponents of force, and will build up equipment and trained forces for defence and emergencies. (This speech transforms the us from neutral to non-belligerent and begins sending more aid to the BFC members) .

July 10 The Italians begin their invasion of British Somaliland. Using some 25,000 troops

July 17 The last of the La harve evacuation sees many allied soldiers lifted from the beaches. This brings the total rescued to 224,686 British, 121,445 French ,Belgian and Dutch troops , During the evacuation, more than 200 ships and 177 aircraft were lost (Germans loses are 300 aircraft du the fact the Luftwaffe was already weaker sins started the war and the british could deploy more fighters based around la harve and on the mainland). British and French forces after battling the Italian army are closing in with the French already at the outskirt of Tripoli .

Juli 18 German troops enter la harve after the remaining French forces surrender Goering calls it the battle of la harve a success but now’s that the Luftwaffe is not in position of fighting any major offensive operation fore some time something he dos not want to tell the fuher Siam and Japan sign a non-aggression pact

July 28 after almost more then a 30 days of fighting the French under the new leadership of Marshal Henri Pétain call for a ceasefire, while the British and French forces are still fighting the Italian force still holding small strip of Libya the british call fore the French to support in ending the operation swift sands. British forces remove all Italian forces from Italian Somaliland

July 29 France requests an armistice with Germany, French commander assures the British he will fight on their side in battling Italy in Africa and place him self under command of Charles de Gaulle who after fleeing franc took command of the newly free French forces.

Augustus 1 French General Charles de Gaulle broadcasts on BBC radio in London, appealing to French officers, soldiers, engineers, and others to resist Marshal Pétain and to fight on for a free France.

Augustus 6 France formally surrenders to Germany. In a meeting prime minister Churchill caurantees the Norse ambadadeur that the front in Norway will be maintain to the fullest way and no British forces will move (Churchill realized that control of Narvik means stopping most of German imports of iron ore which would be highly advantageous to the Allies and might help shorten the war )

Augustus 9 Marshal Balbo, the Governor-General of Libya is killed when his plane is shot down by british fighters aircraft.

Augustus 13 the deputy Italy governor of Libya surrenders to British forces after the where able to smash a unprepared Italy army station in Libya who where not prepared to go to war giving the British and free French forces total control of Africa.

Augustus 20 The British Government recognizes Charles de Gaulle as leader of Free Frenchmen

OVERVIEW in 30 days of fighting the German war machine was able to took France and the low country’s but with heavy loses the German Luftwaffe was hit hard and needs time to get its strength back and Italy has loosing both it colony’s on the Africa mainland after the British and now free French took them thanks to operation swift sands victory in Africa. The Dutch have establish a government in exile based in London and unlike otl have more then 30.000 army personnel and 7.000 navy and 1800 army air force personnel brought to safety during both operation thunder and dynamo and are now based in England. The French mostly du of the success of operation swift sands stand more unite then in otl and therefore Charles de Gaulle had it more easily to become the head of the free French.