Foreign Pol France 1914-45 V7

First published in 2001. This is Volume VII of the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers eleven part series and focuses on on the policies of France from 1914 to 1945. It includes sections on French diplomacy of the War 1914 to 18, the Peace Settlement, from Versailles to the Ruhr and the Dawes Plan, the Franco-Italian Rapprochement, the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance and the policies around the beginning of the next War. Chapter 1 French Diplomacy in the War of 1914–18; Chapter 2 The Peace Settlement; Chapter 3 From Versailles to the Ruhr; Chapter 4 The Occupation of the Ruhr, and the Dawes Plan; Chapter 5 The Early Days of the Cartel des Gauches; Chapter 6 The Briand Era; Chapter 7 The Problem of National Defence after the Evacuation of the Rhineland; Chapter 8 The World Economic Crisis and its Repercussions on the Foreign Policy of France; Chapter 9 The Disarmament Conference and the Rearming of Germany; Chapter 10 The Franco-Italian Rapprochement and the Attempt to Consolidate Central Europe; Chapter 11 The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance; Chapter 12 The Abyssinia Conflict and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland; Chapter 13 The Foreign Policy of the Popular Front; Chapter 14 Munich; Chapter 15 The Beginning of the War; Chapter 16 Woe to the Vanquished;