Neither country dealt with it perfectly, leading to uprisings among the colonials. France certainly did worse, leading to bloody wars in French Indochina and Algeria. Britain lost Palestine, Egypt, and India, and fought a war in Malaysia. Yet, both countries managed to remain world powers, even if they had to share it with the USA, USSR, and China.
The sides in WW I were: the Triple Entente, composed of Britain, France, and Russia (later joined by the US as well), vs. the Central Powers, composed of Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (with an additional alliance to the Ottoman Empire).
Well, the Triple Entente were the UK, France and Russia - The Dreikaiserbund were Russia, Austro-Hungary and Germany.
Well besides all the political pressure to "overtake" or make Britain and France allies the Germans also thought of Britain and France as strategic points in the war. So when the politics failed to overtake them Germany tried taking them with force.
The Allied powers - USSR, as well as United States, Britain, France, Canada, Poland and many other smaller nations won the Second World War.
Well, it was Germany and Poland who were the first to fight in it, but it was really four countries that went to war at the same time. Britain, France, Germany, and Poland were the four.
France and Britain (as well as the Commonwealth countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. ) declared war on Germany on September 3,1939 after Germany invaded Poland. France and Britain had an alliance with Poland.
Napoleon's conquests in Europe brought Britain, as well as Austria, Russia and many other countries, into war with France.
European colonization of Africa was motivated by economic gain, as well as political and social influence. The main colonial powers in Africa around 1900 were Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
No, the French are located in France, the British are in Britain, the UK, England Scotland Wales & Ireland, well, most of us are !
American football is not much of a big deal in France. Football(soccer) is THE sport in France.
well its to be said that it was kenya
well since the southern colonies taded with france, spain and Holand in the carribean, Britain wanted to be the only country to be able to teade with the colonies so they issude an act that they could only trade with them and them only so france got pissed and had a fall out with britain
well they wanted to
The rivalries between Britain & France in History are worldwide. There was a huge power struggle going on between various europen powers, & Britain & France were formost in this. The Caribean, the US & Canada saw much conflict over time, as well as India in Asia. Britain & France saw each other as competitors and enemies for a very long time.
There are a variety of major colonial powers. These include Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, as well as Germany.
The main major event that got Britain and France involved in WWII was the invasion of Poland by the Nazis. The three countries, Britain, France, and Poland had an agreement that if any one of them was invaded the other two would attack Germany.
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