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France 1917-1932 S.P.R.I.T.E

France 1917-1932 S.P.R.I.T.E. Maria Zavala Alexandra Castro Nancy Catalan Miriam Meza. 1 st period. Social. Social Important events:

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France 1917-1932 S.P.R.I.T.E

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  1. France 1917-1932S.P.R.I.T.E Maria Zavala Alexandra Castro Nancy Catalan Miriam Meza 1st period

  2. Social

  3. Social Important events: The Bloc national was denying the needs of the lower classes-The Bloc National was a coalition of rightist groups that feared the socialist opposition and it.s wanting in rule over it. Bloc nation kept France conservative.Developments: Society itself did not want to accept changes. -Death rates increased -Birth rates decreased -Heavy industry as well as agriculture fell -

  4. Political

  5. Important Political Events The Cartel des Gauches was created which made the moderate more powerful than the communist. – Supreme Allied Council in Versailles was created by Painleve – January 1920 a right-centre coalition government was formed. -Nivelle Offensive in 1917 Developments Government had mentality that Germany was to be blamed for the war and therefore should pay it's debt as well as France's debt. -Government relied on the laissez-faire economics. -Socialist were divided into moderates and zealots -Government went rightist which was what led to war in an unprepared condition. Minister Aristide Briand along with FRANK Kellog developed the Kellogg-Briand Pact which stated that the singing parties condemned recourse to war, and denounced it as an aspect of policy

  6. Important People • Raymond Poincare-stabalized France after his presidential term and later returned to Senate. Died in 1934. – • Paul Painleve was prime minister, war minister, and air minister in 1917 and later in 1925. Died in 1933. – • Edouard Herriot replaced Poincare -Millernard- formed the right-entre coalition government and then was elected president in 1920, stayed in the Senate until 1940 and died in 1943. – • Joseph Caillaux - arrested for treason and convicted of criminal negligence which led to his banishment from France for 5 years.

  7. Religion

  8. About 80% of the French people were Roman Catholics 7% were Muslims 2% were Protestants During the Interwar period, France was one of the more liberal nations in opening its doors to Jewish refugees from Poland, Romania, and Germany

  9. Intellectual

  10. Elissa Rhais was a French author who wrote about hard ships experienced by the Jewish community during the Interwar Period. She was among many Jewish women who wrote books about life in France during this time. • Most of the Jewish women writers in the 1920s and 1930s lived in Paris and Alsace. They were almost invariably middle-class women who were highly educated as they studied in the best schools, usually Catholic private schools. These women writers were committed to legalism and anti-clericalism. They were also the first generation of Jewish women to write in French. • According to some specialists, the literary production of Jewish women in the 1920s and 1930s may be divided in two periods: • --1918 - 1933 : The "euphoric generation" that depicted foreign - born women who came to France with the hope to find a better future) • --1933 - 1940 : A period of tragic plots that treated various social and political issues in France).

  11. Technology

  12. Technological Advances in France During these years that WWI was taking place, the technology bloomed in France. Because of industrialism and mass production, new weapons came into the picture which put France right into the game. In 1917, France used their first tanks in battle, which allowed them to be included as a threat amongst the other countries. Poison gas was emerging as a popular sort of weapon as well amongst Europe. 1914, they began to fire tear-gas grenades (xylyl bromide) against the Germans, but later grew stronger and smarter. Nevertheless the German army was the first to give serious study to the development of chemical weapons and the first to use it on a large scale.This gave the rifle a greater range but slower to fire because bullets had to be forced down the barrel against the grooves. This was solved by the invention of the mini-bullet by the French, which was small enough to slide easily into the barrel, but would expand to fit the grooves upon firing.

  13. Economy

  14. Economics in France Although France preformed well in the war, she lost 1.5 million men, and had 3.5 million wounded. Since the death rates in WWI were so high, the workforce steadily declined. Steel Industry was more than half cut in half Agriculture and industry went into serious decline after the war. The value of the franc fell by about 50% during 1919. To pay off the bondholder France was forced to borrow money, at high short term rates.

  15. Between 1922 and 1924, the French Chamber of Deputies demanded full payment of war reparations by Germany, when they didn’t pay, Poincare sent 40,000 troops to occupy the Ruhr. That action not only cost a lot of money, but also turned out to be unsuccessful. As a result France lost a lot of funding. • In 1928 Poincare declared the Franc was to be devalued, this paid off in the short run.

  16. Bibliography Unknown. "France." World Book. 2007. 205. "SparkNotes: The Interwar Years (1919-1938)." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. 04 Jan. 2009 <http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/interwaryears>. "First World War in northern France." THEOTHERSIDE - Nord/Pas-de-Calais. 04 Jan. 2009 <http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/first-war.htm>. 04 Jan. 2009 <http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/61768/sample/9780521661768ws.pdf>. "LECTURE ON ENGLAND AND FRANCE IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD." Sam Houston State University. 04 Jan. 2009 <http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/BrFr.html>. "The Interwar Years (1919-1938)." Sparknotes. 2008. SparkNotes LLC. 4 Jan. 2009 <http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/interwaryears/section3.rhtml>.

  17. Credits Nancy-DBQMiriam Meza –Social/Political/BibliographyMaria Zavala-Technology/Economy/PowerpointAlexandra-Religion/Intellectual/Powerpoint

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