Inaugurated on June 18th 2000, for the 60th birthday of Général de Gaulle's radio appeal, by the President of the Republic, those vast rooms (2000m² of permanent exhibition) are conceived according to a modern museography, using numerous didactical and interactive devices: archive films, multimedia spots, maps, scale models … They echo the historical line of visit, and illustrate the collections on display - uniforms, weapons, materials, authentic documents, memories … In this way, this route offers to everyone, and notably to the youngest ones, a clear and dynamic presentation of the world conflict.

Museum of military history, the Musée de l'Armée presents this conflict in its international dimension - war on every front - by putting in situation the main theatres of operations. In parallel to this, it evokes the actions of those who, individually, rallied Général de Gaulle, mainly in the Free French Forces, but also in various networks, movements and military units of Fighting France, to contribute to victory, with underground action, among others. Those rooms evoke also the great French figures of this conflict, such as Leclerc, Koenig, Juin, de Lattre de Tassigny … About thirty sequences reflect the different stages of the conflict, certain ones being treated in a specific way: June 18th radio appeal, the Russian front, , USA entering the war, Overlord operation, Provence landing, Liberation of Paris, the deportation, the Pacific war …

Those rooms show a clear desire to come up to today's public expectations. The Musée de l'Armée has the mission to explain a determining conflict in our contemporary history, to transmit to the new generations the memory of those who committed themselves in the fights for democracy and the defence of freedom.