- The armistice was signed at 6:50 a.m. in the Forest of Compiègne, in the same spot where the Germans had signed the armistice with France at the end of World War I in 1918.
- The terms of the armistice were extremely harsh for France. Germany occupied northern and western France, as well as the entire Atlantic coast.
- The French government was forced to relocate to Vichy, in central France.
- France was also required to pay a large indemnity to Germany and to surrender all of its weapons and war materiel.
- The armistice was a major blow to French morale and contributed to the rise of the French Resistance movement.