1. The French Search for Security: An Elusive Goal between WWI & II
Treaty of Versailles – crippling of Germany suppose to prevent war of revenge
Collective security agreements tried to prevent German aggression by promise of collective action

2. Allied Reparations Commission
Set-aside $33 billion Germany was supposed to pay
(final payment made in 2010!!!!)
Meant to cripple Germany for the foreseeable future

3. Occupation of the Ruhr Main center of German industry
Move intended to allow France to dominate the Germany economy and….
Keep it weak by enforcing payments

4. Germany, England, France
Locarno, Switzerland
Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy agree to existing boundaries between Germany and both France and Belgium
Germany allowed into the League of Nations
“Spirit of Locarno” produces a new and false sense of security
Pictured, L-R:
Stressemann, G.,
Chamberlain, A.,
Briand, A.
Germany, England, France

5. Treaties with Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia
Intent to create a network of defense alliances with Eastern Europe
England unreliable, looking inward….
Tried to reinforce the faltering collective security system of the League of Nations

6. Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928
United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy – and most of the rest of the world – denounce war as an instrument of foreign-policy
Agreement again increased France’s false sense of security