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The French Search for Security: An Elusive Goal between WWI & II

The French Search for Security: An Elusive Goal between WWI & II. Treaty of Versailles – crippling of Germany suppose to prevent war of revenge Collective security agreements tried to prevent German aggression by promise of collective action. Allied Reparations Commission.

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The French Search for Security: An Elusive Goal between WWI & II

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  1. The French Search for Security:An Elusive Goal between WWI & II • Treaty of Versailles – crippling of Germany suppose to prevent war of revenge • Collective security agreements tried to prevent German aggression by promise of collective action

  2. Allied Reparations Commission • Set-aside $33 billion Germany was supposed to pay (final payment made in 2010!!!!) • Meant to cripple Germany for the foreseeable future

  3. Occupation of the Ruhr • Main center of German industry • Move intended to allow France to dominate the Germany economy and…. • Keep it weak by enforcing payments

  4. Locarno, Switzerland - 1925 • Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italyagree to existing boundaries between Germany and both France and Belgium • Germany allowed into the League of Nations • “Spirit of Locarno” produces a new and false sense of security Pictured, L-R: Stressemann, G., Chamberlain, A., Briand, A. Germany, England, France

  5. Treaties with Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia • Intent to create a network of defense alliances with Eastern Europe • England unreliable, looking inward…. • Tried to reinforce the faltering collective security system of the League of Nations

  6. Kellogg-Briand Pact1928 • United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy – and most of the rest of the world – denounce war as an instrument of foreign-policy • Agreement again increased France’s false sense of security

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