This thesis explores how the initial defeat of the French army in June 1940 and subsequent request by Marshal Pétain for an armistice with Nazi Germany which was followed by collaboration with the Nazi regime in an attempt to maintain some degree of French National Sovereignty would eventually allow the Vichy French time to aid the Allies in the defeat of Germany. Under terms of the armistice, the Germans fully occupied the Northern Region of France, leaving the French government to administer the Southern region of France as well as the French North African colonies. This paper will argue that exigent circumstances instigated the call for the armistice. This paper will show the extent of the collaboration between Vichy and the Nazi regime. A significant number of Vichy leaders clandestinely and the French populace in general reached out to the Allies in various ways aiding the Allied cause during World War II.