Today me and Courtney worked on our project.
France:
- how did the treaty of versailies impact them?
- France wanted security out of the treaty beacause they suffered a lot of devestation during the war and needed to repair it's prosperity.
- they also wanted to regain the rich and industrial land of Alsace-Lirraine that Germany took from them from the the Franco-Prussian war of 1871. - what types of government did this country have in the interwar years? (1919-1938)
- they depended on laissez-faire economics.
- this upset people that were for socialists because they felt the government wasn't doing anything.
- the bloc nation did not want to help that poor and lower class.
- the french government thought that it was completely Germany's fault and thought that they should pay france back for all of their war debt.
- raymond poincare was the prime minister from 1922-1924
- the french chamber of deputies expected payments from Germany.
- germans asked for a moratorium poincare had 40,000 troops go to Ruhr in Germany.
- that only cost france more money and didn't get the germans to pay.
- it lead to the draft of the dawes plan so annual payments of repairations were decreased.
- a moderate socialist colation called the Cartel des Gauches replaced the Bloc Nation on May 11 1924.
- the socialists were disorganized and didn't know how to approach the problems with germany so in 1926 Poincare became prime minister again.
- in 1928 Poincare decreed "the franc was to be devalued"
- doing that paid off right away.
- july of 1929 Poincare stepped out of office and france didn't have stability so they went into a "disray" for a few years.
- in the 1930's the ideas of facism and conunism were popular.
- in february 1934 there were riots and problems with police. this caused many deaths.
- in 1936 a leon blum (a jew) became prime minister on june 3rd, 1936.
- Blum wasn't able to keep the economy stable and the "Popular Front government fell apart".
- the economy soon had stability again and increased armaments manufactures.
- france declared war on germany on September 3rd, 1939. how did their leader that lead them throughout WWII come to power?
- Charles De Gauelle was a leader throughout WWII.
- George Clemenceau's was a leader throughout WWII.
- George went to the signing of the treaty.
- Edouard Daladier was a prime minister three times in 1933, 1934 and 1938.
- Paul Reynaud replaced him but was also a war minister.how did this leader change their country (for the better or worse) prior to WWII?
what were the goals of the leader?
- George Clemenceau's belief was that Germany should be brought to her knees so she would never be able to start a war again.
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