user: Q:Information:  - France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse and Bordeaux.  - The Italian invasion of France , also called the Battle of the Alps ( 10 -- 25 June 1940 ) , was the first major Italian engagement of World War II and the last major engagement of the Battle of France . Italy 's entry into the war widened its scope considerably in Africa and the Mediterranean Sea . The goal of the Italian leader , Benito Mussolini , was the elimination of Anglo - French domination in the Mediterranean , the reclamation of historically Italian territory ( so - called Italia irredenta ) and the expansion of Italian influence over the Balkans and in Africa . France and Britain endeavoured throughout the 1930s to draw Mussolini away from an alliance with Germany , but Germany 's rapid successes in the early phase of the war made Italian intervention on the German side inevitable by May 1940 . 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 Alpine front , since both France and Italy had adopted a defensive posture along their frontier . There was some skirmishing between patrols and the French forts of the Ligne Alpine exchanged fire with their Italian counterparts of the Vallo Alpino . On 17 June , France announced that it would seek an armistice with Germany . 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 . They penetrated a few kilometres into French territory against strong resistance . The offensive stalled before its primary objectives could be attained , the coastal town of Menton being the most significant conquest . On the evening of 24 June , an armistice was signed at Rome . It came into effect just after midnight on 25 June , at the same time as the armistice with Germany ( signed 22 June ) . Italy was allowed to occupy the territory it had captured in the brief...  - Hiroshima is perhaps best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on the city (and later on Nagasaki) at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II.  - The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II. The United States had dropped the bombs with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.  - The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 during the Second World War. In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France.  - World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history.    'italian invasion of france' is related to which object entity through the relation of 'start time'?  Choices: - 10 june 1940  - 1939  - 1940  - 1944  - 1945  - 2017  - 6 june 1944
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