From the Great War to the collapse of 1940, the Third Republic faced victory and mourning, the 1920s, the Depression, and the rise of extremes. Defeat in May–June 1940 ended the regime at Vichy.
War and interwar years
1914–1918, Versailles, reconstruction, Cartel des gauches, crises of the 1930s, Popular Front.
1940
Military disaster, armistice, vote of full powers to Pétain—end of the Third Republic.