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Music Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, episode 63, The Third Republic Part 3, France and Friends.

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Last episode, we discussed some of the internal problems faced by

successive French governments during the 1920s and early 1930s. This time we're going to talk about

French security, both how the French military viewed security and how the French foreign office

viewed security. At a basic level, the two groups viewed ensuring French security in two different

ways. On the front of foreign relations, they hoped to build and maintain a robust system of

alliances that would force Germany into a position of isolation in Central Europe. Ideally,

this would recreate the threat from the East that had existed before 1914 with France's

alliance to Tsarist Russia.

These eastern alliances would then complement support that France was more confident in having

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