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French Foreign Policy
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Section C
French Foreign Policy, 1919 - 1940
Frances victory in 1918 is considered by many with hindsight to be a pyretic one. ... The rich northeast of the county had been damaged almost beyond repair and the French had to borrow 175 billion Francs in order to begin reparations. ... It was this wish to avoid war that dominated French foreign policy from 1919 until 1940.The Versailles treaty of 1919 did not being the French the permanent security from Germany they had hoped for. General Foch wanted to have the French army guard the land west of the Rhine from German remilitarization. ... Britain refused to guarantee French safety in an attack by Germany, and they also disagreed over policies in a Greek Turkish dispute. Lenin refused to repay Tsarist debts that contributed to French financial difficulties. ... However, the French did not buy arms and this later contributed to the fall of France, as they had no modern weaponry to protect themselves with in World War II.
The French invaded the Ruhr in 1922 because Germany was failing to make monthly war reparation repayments. ... This contributed to the appeasement policy adopted in France.
Briand controlled foreign policy in France from 1925 until his death in 1932. ... He welcomed them into the League of Nations in 1926 and was instrumental in the organisation of the Kellogg Pact which was an agreement between the world powers outlawing war as an instrument of policy.
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Title: French Foreign Policy
Words: 1074
Rating: None
Pages: 4.3
submitted by: vincefoley
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