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A Finnish postage stamp from 1947 commemorating the Paris Peace Treaty Finland was restored to its borders of 1 January 1941 (thus confirming its territorial losses after the Winter War of 1939–1940), except for the former province of Petsamo , which was ceded to the Soviet Union .
As one of Hitler's few concessions, the French Navy was to be disarmed but not surrendered, for Hitler realised that pushing France too far could result in France fighting on from the French colonial empire. An unoccupied region in the south, the Zone libre, was left relatively free to be governed by a rump French administration based in Vichy.
In May 1940, after the fall of France, some members of the British government, including Lord Halifax, the foreign secretary, considered making peace with Nazi Germany. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Halifax believed that Britain might not be able to continue the fight after the rapid German victories in Western Europe and thought negotiating might preserve the ...
To underline that point further, Sir Horace Wilson, the British government's Chief Industrial Advisor, and a close associate of Chamberlain was dispatched to Berlin to inform Hitler that if the Germans attacked Czechoslovakia, France would honour her commitments under the 1924 French-Czechoslovak treaty, and "then England would feel honour ...
The policy of appeasement underestimated Hitler's ambitions by believing that enough concessions would secure a lasting peace. [1] Today, the agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement towards Germany, [ 2 ] and a diplomatic triumph for Hitler.
Treaty of Dunkirk at Wikisource The Treaty of Dunkirk was signed on 4 March 1947, between France and the United Kingdom in Dunkirk ( France ) as a Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Assistance against a possible German attack in the aftermath of World War II .
The Munich Agreement [a] was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. [1]
The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance was a bilateral treaty between France and the Soviet Union with the aim of enveloping Nazi Germany in 1935 to reduce the threat from Central Europe. It was pursued by Maxim Litvinov , the Soviet foreign minister, [ 1 ] and Louis Barthou , the French foreign minister, who was assassinated in October ...