.1918-1929 Years Of Anglo-french Relations Research

This dissertation mainly focuses on the relations between Britain and France in the 1920s.It consists of six chapters:Chapter One: It retrospects precisely the history and cause of the strategies concerned the Britain and France. It mainly expounds from the point of geographical politics the sum and substance of British and French foreign policy. Since the Great Britain is an island country out of the Continent, the content of its foreign strategy must come from this location: expanded actively to the oversea, managed its domain and strength, and at the same time, to the countries in the Continent, it adopted the balance of the powers, preventing the emergence of the super- hegemonical countries which would threaten the security and hegemony of the Great Britain. As the representative of the Continent, France is called "hexangular country" of which its frontier was surrounded by the once powerful neighbors-- Germany, Italy, Spain. French frontier's shape is open, which is absence of strategic depth and was often aggressed by different races. All this made French border's safety serious. So France was always seeking the security strategy which maintained its "natural frontier".Chapter Two: After the first world war, the traditional foreign strategies of Britain and France continued. In order to make European market normalization as quickly as possible, Britain still adopted the balance of the powers, and its ultimate motive was to insure the European peace and stability, oppose to French suppressing Germany heavily, and this would offer the British economical revival and development an opportunity. All this made of the background of the "peace strategy". French security strategy was to maintain the frontier's safety. In order to achieve this object, it insisted on overwhelming Germany from politics, economy and military, established French hegemony in the Continent, and made sure to get real safety. Due to the difference of the strategic objects between them, the two parties argued drastically at the peace conference. Although they split the difference and signed the Treaties of Versailles, their strategic conflicts were not solved at all. This left hidden troubles for the European peace and reconstruction.Chapter Three: It expounds in detail how the peace strategy was implemented initially by Britain. After the Paris peace conference, on the one hand Britain got France partly satisfied with the request for reparation, on the other hand made an effort to renew the European economy, but it was manifested that all this didn'tcome to the expected result. In 1923, because of the stalemate about reparation, France sent troops to occupy the Ruhr district. At the first stage of the crisis, Britain adopted coordinate policy to France. As the situation became worse and worse, French action probably endangered European balance and damaged European economical comeback, so Britain took the containment policy, forcing France to come to British foreign policy's orbit. The initial implement of the peace strategy made it. In this period, France adopted coordinate policy to Britain at first and tried to solve the reparation and security problems by negotiation. When British purpose to support Germany and suppress France became more and more obvious, France gradually abandoned the coordinate relations with Britain, and sent troops to occupy Ruhr forcibly. This action led to serious antagonism between them. Because of grave financial crisis, France had to give up the strong policy to Germany, and step up the coordinate road once more.Chapter Four: In spite of British peace strategy being implemented, the contradiction of reparation between France and Germany maybe result in more serious conflicts. In 1924, with the assistance of the United States, the Great Britain together with correlative European countries concluded the Dawes Plan, aiming at solving the reparation and renewing German economy. During negotiating about the plan, the Great Britain suppressed France and supported Germany, further adjusting European balance and maintainin...