France

France (French: [fʁɑ̃s] ), officially the French Republic (French: République française), is a country primarily located in Western Europe, consisting of metropolitan France and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco and Italy to the east, Andorra and Spain to the south, as well as the …

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11 May 2022 English

Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War provides access to British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953, with the majority of files dating from …

morale in Axis nations ● the policies of Vichy France ● Japanese wartime strategy ● the plight of prisoners


4 May 2022 English

Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to thousands of files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and …

(between the Soviet Union, the U.S.A., the U.K., and France) on the potential reunification of Germany. ●


UNE: University of New England · 28 February 2018 English

By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …

Europe overran the Netherlands, Belgium, and then France. In the subsequent Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe’s


University of Kent · 1 January 2018 English

This essay gives you an introductory view of the topic of war and social change on the British Home Front by using the changing position of women as a case …

British Expeditionary Force was being routed in France and as an attempted invasion of Britain appeared


1 January 2017 English

“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …

level, the ‘twist’ and the latest pop records from France, America and the United Kingdom can be heard over


1 January 2017 English

capitalist West. To prevent a new, aggressive Germany from reemerging, the Four Powers – the U.S., U.K., France, and the Soviet Union – each set up their own occupation zones in Germany and the city of Berlin

from reemerging, the Four Powers – the U.S., U.K., France, and the Soviet Union – each set up their own occupation


1 January 2017 English

In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …

rooted in the fact that the United Kingdom – unlike France, Italy, and Turkey but similarly to the United present Albanian regime, they would prefer it to be France and cited as a reason for this Hoxha’s French training quick to approach the capitalist countries (Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Norway, and the Netherlands)


UCL: University College London · 1 January 2017 English

In the Cold War Eastern Europe collection, historians have an invitation to explore the variety and complexity of the cultural Cold War. The explosion in cultural traffic across the Iron …

in 1955, a request went out to the ambassador in France to make discrete enquiries as to how the tour main talking points of the Paris Working Group (France, U.S., U.K.) in the run-up to the Geneva Summit


1 January 2017 English

The leaders of the Western great powers, the United States, Great Britain, and France – unlike their public opinion which expressed vivid solidarity with the Hungarian Revolution from the beginning – were

powers, the United States, Great Britain, and France – unlike their public opinion which expressed vivid henceforth: FRUS vol. XXV), 290–291. Britain, and France during the three Security Council sessions which East with the engagement of Great Britain and France on October 31, the tenor of the negotiations among Union voting in concert against Great Britain and France.8 As a result of the sudden deterioration in relations representatives of the United States, Great Britain, and France. The result of the discord which arose in relations


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Norway, France; 2 (d) New cases of alleged political psychiatry Principles 5 (c) Activities of Groups: Canada; France; Switzerland; Germany; Holland; Britain. 5 V Medica, 60 blvd de Latour- Maubourg, 75007 Paris, France. Honc Sec. of British "Working Group" : Mrs. C societies of Great Britain, Norway, Australasia, France, Germany, Sweden and the United States. Prof. British position. France. There is no national association of psychiatrists in France. The profession


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