Seconde Guerre Mondiale
1st September 1939: Germany attacks Poland.
3rd Septembert 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany.
10 May 1940: German army offensive violating the neutrality of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
13th-14th May 1940: Meuse breakthrough, fighting at Sedan and Monthermé.
10th-11th June 1940 : German breakthrough over the Aisne.
22nd June 1940: Signature of the Armistice. The Ardennes are in the forbidden zone.
1943: Creation of STO (requisition of local males for forced labour in Germany), increase in number of resistance groups.
6th June 1944: Allied landings in Normandy.
6th September 1944: Liberation of Sedan
7th May 1944: German capitulation signed in Rheims.