16 Facts About Interwar France

Interwar France covers the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural and social history of France from 1919 to 1939.

Interwar France suffered heavily during World War I in terms of lives lost, disabled veterans and ruined agricultural and industrial areas occupied by Germany as well as heavy borrowing from the United States, Britain, and the French people.

Interwar France suffered severe human and economic damage during the war.

Gross domestic product was quite stable in the 1930s, as Interwar France successfully resisted the worldwide Great Depression.

The middle classes resented Jews in Interwar France and showed anger at competition for jobs or business.

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Interwar France was a founder of the negritude movement, a racial identity movement for a community that included blacks from the French West Indies, the US and French Africa.

Interwar France was part of the Allied force that occupied the Rhineland following the armistice.

Interwar France realised France could not contain the much larger Germany by itself or secure effective support from Britain or the League.

The intervention was a failure, and in the summer of 1924, Interwar France accepted the American solution to the reparations issues, as expressed in the Dawes Plan.

Interwar France had paid for the war with very heavy borrowing at home and from Britain and the United States.

Interwar France was disillusioned by the imperialist thrust of the Versailles Treat, and sought a stable international peace in rapprochement with the Soviet Union to block the rising German revanchist movement, especially after Hitler's rise in January 1933.

Interwar France's movement opposed the far-right Vichy regime and its leaders were arrested and the PSF vanished.

Young intellectuals all considered that Interwar France was confronted by a "civilisation crisis" and, despite their differences, opposed what Mounier called the "established disorder" ; he meant capitalism, individualism, economic liberalism and materialism.

Appeasement was increasingly adopted as Germany grew stronger after 1933 since Interwar France suffered a stagnant economy, unrest in its colonies and bitter internal political fighting.

Interwar France appeased Italy over Ethiopia for fear of an alliance between Italy and Germany.

Interwar France sought peace, even in the face of Hitler's escalating demands, by appeasing Germany, in co-operation with Britain.