Theme 4 - War

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La libération

The liberation/ freedom

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Le débarquement

Landing

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Une pénurie

Shortage

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Une carte de rationnement

Ration card

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La valeur calorique

Caloric value

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Les privations

Deprivations

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Les denrées alimentaires

“Foodstuff”

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Faire la queue

To queue

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Une file d’attente

Queue

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Le marché noir

Black Market (secret market)

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Vendre à prix d’or

To sell at premium price

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Les survivants

Survivors

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Un rescapé

A survivor

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Les résistants

The Resistance

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Les collaborateurs

French people who worked with the Germans (mpl)

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Les collaboratrices

French people who worked with the Germans

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Les miliciens

French civilian police

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Un parti collaborationniste

Collaborating party

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Un règlement de compte

Selling scores

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Une épuration sauvage

Wild purge

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Les représailles

Retaliation

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Tondue

Shared

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Humiliée

Humiliated

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En public

In public

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Un traitre

A traitor

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Les criminels de guerre

War criminals

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Les vainqueurs

Victors

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Un procès

Process

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Le tribunal

Tribunal (a type of court which settles disputes)

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Amnister

To pardon

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Condamner

To condemn

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L’affrontement

Confrontation

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Être jugé officiellement

Oficially judged

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Une exécution

Execution

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La vengeance

Vengeance

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Pardonner

To forgive

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Oublier

To Forget

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La paix (p-ay)

Peace

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Un gouvernement provisoire

Provisional government

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Les infrastructures

Infrastructures

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Le renouveau

Revival

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Mettre un terme aux restrictions

To put an end to restrictions

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La reconstruction

Reconstruction

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Les grèves

Strikes

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La guerre froid

The Cold War

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Le rideau de fer

Iron curtain (political barrier separating Soviet bloc and West bloc)

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Les trentes glorieuses

Golden years (30 years between 1945-75, big changes)

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Survivre

To survive

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Reprenons l’histoire

Let’s go back in history…

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Le maréchal Pétain

Marshall Pétain

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L’armistice

Armistice (an agreement to stop fighting)

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Les dirigeants politiques (m)

Political leaders

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La défaite

Defeat

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Diviser

To divide

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Une zone occupée

Occupied zone

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Une zone libre

Free zone

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Envahir

Invade

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L’essence (f)

Petrol

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Le soldat

Soldier

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Bondé

Packed (full)

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Procurer

To get

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La mairie

Town hall

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Être nommé

To be named

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Carrément

Completely

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Le nazisme

Nazism

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La paresse

Laziness

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Les droits fondamentaux (m)

Fundamental rights

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Liberté de pensée

Freedom of thought

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Remplacer

Replace

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Sinistrés

Disaster victims

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L’epoque (f)

Era

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Squatter

To squat

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Réquisitionner

Requisition (order which claims property)

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Un serrurier

Locksmith

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Le commissaire de police

Police superintendent

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Deplisser

To smooth out

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Le matelas

Mattress

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Mal-logé

Poorly housed

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Au milieu de…

In the middle of…

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En ruine

In ruin

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De bric et de broc

With any old thing

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L’après-guerre

After-war

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L’avant-guerre

Before-war

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L’agglomération (f)

Town

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Les camps cigarettes

Tent cities

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Les baraquements (m)

Tents

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Se retrancher

To entrench/ hide behind

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L’aviation (m)

Air force

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Le char

Tank

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Balayer

To sweep

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Se muer en

To turn into

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Blesser

To injure

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Un bilan

A toll/ outcome

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Epuiser

To exhaust

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Démoraliser

To lose morality

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Durement

Harshly

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S’écrouler

To collapse

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L’Exode

Exodus (lots of people leaving)

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Fuir/ s’enfuir

To flee

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Les convois

Convoy (A group of vehicles or ships travelling)