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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, episode 178, The Fall of France, Preparations for War.

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When Britain and France entered the war on September 3, 1939, the fact that they were in a conflict

with Germany was not necessarily a surprise.

And in some ways, they'd been preparing for this conflict since the end of the First World

War.

Immediately after war was declared, pre-planned actions in London and Paris would begin as both

nations began to move onto a war footing.

This episode will focus on these actions immediately after the start of the war, when both Britain and France began to mobilize

their forces, work out the ways in which both nations would cooperate to defeat their common

enemy, and they began to build support for the war among their populations. Unlike during the First World War,

these actions would have some real time to be put into place, because there wouldn't be any

major fighting for the British and French armies until the fighting in Norway, which would happen

in April 1940, and then when the Germans, of course, would invade France in May. This time,

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