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French Foreign Policy - Coggle Diagram
French Foreign Policy
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Political instability
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Clemenceau gave up on his claim to annex the Rhineland in exchange for an alliance with the UK and US (US didn't work out due to isolationist policy)
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Right wing Prime Minister Pierre Laval had a deep distrust of Nazi Germany and persuaded France and Britain the join the Stresa Front
Internal
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France was getting increasingly weaker due to a stagnant economy, unrest in its colonies and bitter internal fighting
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French foreign policy was in the lens of defeat in 1940 which is seen as the long term decline of the French Republic (masked by WW1 victory). They meekly followed Britains lead
The policy of appeasement was born out of France's economic and political weakness and their lack of resolve
Alliances
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'Little Entrente'
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France failed to protect Czechoslovakia in 1938-39 as they sacrificed the alliance at the Munich Conference
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Even when Hitler sen troops into the Rhineland in 1936 France refused to go to war without British support (pushed by PM Edouard Daladier)
France overall relied on alliances and collective security mechanisms to face Germany's growing aggression and Britains wavering support
Maginot Line
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Germans penetrated through the Ardennes Forest as it had no military protection as the French planners deemed it impossible to get through