Did France fight in World War 1?

Answer 1

France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 and was one of the original Allies. It surrendered on 22 June 1940, but some French forces continued fighting as the Free French. After the liberation of France in 1944 it played a more active role again and was rewarded with its own zone in Germany - and after the war with a permanent seat on the Security Council of the United Nations. Joncey

Answer 2

To be strictly accurate, she didn't. Rather, WW1 joined her on 3rd August 1914, when Germany declared war on her. Iirc, German troops had already violated her frontier two days before that.

Answer 3

The Germans invaded France in August 1914, bringing France into the war. (France declared war on Germany because of Frances alliance with Russia. Not because they were invaded)

Germany became united into a nation in 1865, and France soon started a war with the new nation, and lost. As part of the peace settlement France had to give up the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany. France wanted revenge. Looking for a way to get back at the Germans, France made an alliance with Russia. This was a very strange pairing - Europe's largest democracy, allied with Europe's most repressive, autocratic monarchy. The obvious aim of the Franco-Russian alliance was Germany, which now felt surrounded. Now, if Germany went to war with either Russia or France, Germany would have both to fight. The German military began to plan for what to do in case that happened. The plan they decided on was to defeat France quickly, before the huge, but very slow, Russian forces could be fully gathered and assembled to begin fighting.

Germany also made an alliance with Austria-Hungary, also known as the Hapsburg Empire, their neighbor in central Europe.

In 1914, when Austria went to war against Serbia over the Serbian-backed terrorists who murdered the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Russia decided to meddle, and intervene on the side of tiny Serbia. So now, Germany's ally, Austria-Hungary, had to fight not just the little nation of Serbia, but Russia too, and Germany as her ally was drawn in. This triggered the German war plan, which called for defeating Russia's ally, France, and brought about the invasion of France.

Any time a nation makes an alliance, it hands the power to draw it into war to some other nation. This is why ex-President Bush's plan to make an Alliance with Russian Georgia was such an appallingly terrible idea. When Russia began aggression against Georgia, over an area the size of about two US counties in 2008, it would have meant war between the US and Russia, if Bush had managed to get the US Senate and our NATO partner nations to agree to an alliance with Georgia.

Answer 4

Yes.

France sent and lost more soldiers than any other victorious nation (except Russia) of WW1.

France did most of the fighting but resisted to Germany with a big help from the UK and late but decisive help from the US.

Answer 5

On August 1st, France rejected an ultimatum from Germany and started mobilisation.

On August 3rd, Germany declared war to France and started with its attack on Belgium according to the "Schlieffen Plan"

Source: Zeitbilder 6 by Scheucher, Wald, Staudinger, Scheipl, Ebenhoch at öbvhpt Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Wien, 2004

(my history book)

Answer 6

The US joined the Allies in World War One in April 1917. Previously the US had managed to remain neutral. As an aside, in the 1916 US presidential elections, the incumbent president, Woodrow Wilson, ran on the slogan of "he kept us out of war". That slogan became famous in that soon after the 1916 elections, US President Wilson headed the US war effort. In the USA, Wilson helped kindle American nationalism. Germany did not help its cause do to its policy at several times, of declaring unrestricted sea warfare which effected US shipping. There was also business interest pressures regarding more trade with Europe and the Propaganda side of "making the world safe for democracy".

Answer 7

Because Russia and Fance signed a treaty in the 1870's forming an alliance, and when Russia backed Serbia against Germany and Austria-Hungary, France got involved.

Answer 8

They invaded at the beginning of the war through Belgium

Answer 9

1915