France in WW2

it was brown with a little handle so you could spin it and it was made of wood

"un salon" is the name of the lounge or living room in a house. In an hotel it may also indicate the reception rooms.

The Maginot Line spanned the entire German-French border - from Belgium to Switzerland - and was about 720km (450mi) long.

The pact between Hitler and Stalin to split Poland was made in secret. When the UK and France pledged to support Poland, they were doing it primarily (only?) with fighting against Germany in mind. Also, the USSR waited to invade their half of Poland until after Germany had conquered its half and thereby gotten into the war with France and the UK.

Also, some of the territory invaded by the USSR was actually Polish-occupied Ukraine, not Poland, and the military dictatorship in charge of Poland pre-1939 had an unsavoury record of mistreatment toward the Ukrainians. I should add that it became worse once the oppressors from Poland were replaced by those sent from Moscow.

While the Soviet Union did violate Poland, England and France obviously did not want to declare war against BOTH Germany and Russia. As events in 1940 show, England and France had enough to deal with in Germany.

English and French couldn't even handle Germany, it would be silly to declear a war against U.S.S.R.

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The British pledge to Poland was militarily meaningless for geographical reasons, anyway.

The French had a secret alliance with the Russians that was signed in 1892 to ensure against the further the rise of Otto von Bismark and a increasing militaristic and imperialistic Germany. The alliance was called the Franco-Russian Alliance and was to remain in place so long as the Triple Alliance (Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary) was still active.

But in 1907 France and Russia allied with Great Britain, and formed the Triple Entente.

Austria-Hungary was not in the same alliance as Italy you dum butt.

== == It was a Roman Province - Gallia Transalpina. before that, it was a land mass occupied by multiple tribes - a bit like the USA in fact. Think of the Romans as the British and you have the history. Mind you, the British had their hand in the matter; in the medieval period more than half of the territory of France was at one time or another under English rule. It was this, in fact, which with the help of Joan of Arc gave rise to the felling of Frenchness which built the modern nation. So, to sum up: France was: a region occupied sparsely by Celts a tribal free-for-all occupied by the Gauls (500 BC) a Roman province full of Gallo-Romans (55 BC) a devastated area overrun by Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, Vandals and other trash. (400 AD) an area half overrun by the Franks (500 AD) the Kingdom of the Franks (600 AD) Part of the Empire of Charlemagne (800) a small area ruled by the King of France (1000) a large area ruled by the King of France (1450) A larger area, ditto (1700) A larger republic (1792) An even larger Empire (1805) A slightly smaller Kingdom (1815) A Republic again, an Empire again (1848, 1852) Finally, a somewhat smaller Republic (1870) A Republic (1918) and now - France.

This answer is a bit vague... but will help you to do further research. When the Nazis invaded France, they occupied the south, and the north - which was called vichy France, was supposedly 'free France' (but was still very nazi). marcheal petain was the leader of vichy France, he was called a collaborator for this as he complied with all nazi ideology. If you research Petain, and collaborators you will get more info... this is just what i can remember from my research. You will also, when reseraching vichy France, find a map which will show the occupied and vichy France divide.

Nobody 'discovered' Normandy. France is inhabited since prehistoric times, so there is no word of who got here first.

"la République Française", short form: la France

The Allies and the Axis.
Allies and Axis

Public education in France is of higher standards than in the US, according to the results of the PISA study.

French society is practically socialist whereas the US is very Capitalist. That counts for social differences too but it applies strongly to the intellectual.

Social differences:

France has universal healthcare, the US has privatised health care.

The US full time work week is 40 hrs, in France it is 36 hrs.

Standard vacation time in the US is 2 weeks per year, in France it is 5 weeks per year mandatory.

Higher education is free in France, in the US it is paid for privately by each student.

Life expectancy in France is 78.8 years, in the US it is 77.1 years.

France is roughly twice the size of the state of Colorado, anyone who has driven across even a tiny portion of the US knows just how huge the country is. In my opinion the size of a country affects the psyche of its citizens in many ways. In the US, we make everything bigger. We drive bigger cars, we build bigger homes, our roads are bigger etc... In France people make much more careful choices about how they use the space they have, its simply a matter of necessity. The effect on society are primarily a much more advanced mass transit system in France than what we have in the US and the mentality that goes along with the social closeness, as opposed to the individualism of the US

A source is here. http://tinyurl.com/3yhc2a All numbers are approximate, but the estimate is that about 75,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps. Other estimates are somewhat higher, e.g. 77,000. Some of those deported from France were already refugees from other countries. About 250,000 Jews in France survived the war. Yad Vashem has honored about 2,000 French for protecing Jews from both the Nazis and the far right wing Vichy government. The Vichy regime represented the most virulent strains of anti-semitism in France. The Vichy eagerness to cooperate with the Nazis is sometimes seen as evidence of general French collaboration in gathering deportees. Jewish refugees who fled to Vichy-governed France usually found themselves worse off than in German-occupied areas. None of it was easy. But while many were anti-semitic at different levels, there was resistance in many areas to surrendering French citizens to the Germans, leading people to hide Jews. The deportations shocked some into action. Despite the apathy or anti-semitism of some church leaders, some French bishops bravely preached against the the deportations at a critical time leading to more assistance for those in hiding. Many French Jews were assimilated and not easily identified. The Germans had one million troops in occupied France, a ratio of about 1-40. That was an overwhelming force in military terms,but without greater French cooperation, the move to identify Jews and ship them to death camps was considerable hampered. While it is small consolation, the number of deaths could have been far higher. One of the more moving memorials to the Holocaust is in a park behind Notre Dame cathedral- and it specifically recognizes those who were deported from France. France today is home to the largest Jewish population in Europe, but its Muslim population is far higher still.

Albert Lebrun was the President of the French Republic. He was followed during World War 2 by Philippe Petain as the Chief of the French Government on 11 July 1940.

One of the most famous or infamous was Marie Antoinette.

Ordinary Germans joined the army, there was an almost total mobilisation, with Germany being able to bring in workers from the east, it freed ordinary workers to join the army.

He cut off the oil supply and doing so, it led to and attack

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The Côte d'Azur has a proven reputation for sun, with an average 2500 hours per year. Winter (Nov-Feb) hardly ever gets colder than 5°C (41°F) and from then on it's all just differing degrees of warm, from a mild average of 15°C (59°F) most of the year right up to temperatures of 40°C (104°F) in July and August. Month Temp Max/Min(°C) Rainfall (mm) Humidity am/pm (%) Sunshine (hrs) Jan 13 / 5 79 82 / 68 4 Feb 14 / 6 67 81 / 60 6 Mar 15 / 8 65 80 / 57 6 Apr 16 / 9 69 79 / 54 8 May 21 / 14 45 78 / 54 9 Jun 24 / 17 39 72 / 50 10 Jul 27 / 20 16 69 / 45 11 Aug 27 / 20 30 75 / 49 10 Sep 24 / 16 77 81 / 54 8 Oct 21 / 13 129 84 / 61 6 Nov 16 / 8 121 85 / 66 5 Dec 13 / 6 87 83 / 68 4 Copyright Lonely Planet

Mur is a masculine noun.

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