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France: Georges Clemenceau wanted to bring germany to its knees after WW1, so did everybody else, so he was popular, so thats what they did. they gained some land, turned Rhineland into a demilitarized zone. France was maybe the only happy county after WW1. They got lots of germany's money too.
Had a constitutional monarchy (for them it was pretty much just a democracy) during the interwar years.
Vichy Governemt and Free French Underground during WW1. The Vichy Government was led by Marshal Henri Petain, and located in central france. They were for obeying Germany...did whatever Hitler told them to do. in return, hitler allowed him and the Vichy Gov. to remain in control of southern france. So it was the pro-hitler french group led by the french. they helped hitler round up jews too. so this part of france was an axis power.
Free French Underground I(led by Charles de Gaulle) was the official french governement. they fled france because their county was being taken over by germany and the Vichi gov. so they went up to london. so technically, our allies during WW2 was just people from france, not france itself. but these guys were Allies.
So de Gaulle fled. hitler was gonna attack Dunkirk, but he told his soldiers to wait on it because the tank werent there yet. so in the time period that the germans were waiting and doing nothing, gb and france took the opportunity to evacuate dunkirk. hundreds of thousands of people were transported to london, gb, in that time. saved lots of lives, and those who were evacuated made up most of the french soldiers who were our allies.
WW2 put france into a recession. they relied on laisse faire.
also after WW2, france desparately tried to hold on to their colony in Vietnam. Vietnamese think they're finally gonna get their independance, but then we get involved and start the Vietnam War...but thats another story.
China: The republic of china. lots of bad blood between them and japan. allied with the communist party to retake Shang hei from japan, who had attacked them and expanded their empire into southern china....cuz remember, japan wanted to take over all of china, wanted to be the main asian power. china didnt like that much.
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