france
France
Period 2
Renaissance - Northern Renaissance
Age of Exploration in France
France was late to the new world because they are dealing with religious issues brought on by the protestant reformation in their country
France will eventually set up a settlement in 1608 called Quebec founded by Samuel D Champlain who followed maps drawn by mid-16th century French explorer jacques cartier who traveled the saint lawrence river in Canada
France makes money through fur trading and fishing which does not require slave Labor - not involved in the slave trade because don't need it
Have a better relationship with Native american than any other Europeans
French territory includes
Northeast Canada and new orleans property along Kipling River and Hadi
France was involved in French wars of religion (16th-century civil war between French catholic led by the monarchy against french protestant, Huguenots)
Wars last for decades and eventually, end in 1588 with the Edict of Nantes (a doc that allows all French people to have religious freedom)
Louis XIV and Versi
The King of France who has absolute power and is known as the sun king showcases his power and wealth in the building of the palace and versa
Period 3
Enlightenment
Philosophers
Rousseau comes up with the theory of general will which states that rulers should work for what the people want
Voltrari advocates freedom of religion and anti-slavery
Wollstonecraft - advocates women's rights
French Revolution
1789 French people of the 3rd estate rebelled against the French king Louis XVI and queen marie antoinette due to unequal economic and social policies
The revolt starts July 14 1789 when people in Paris stormed the Bastille prison
King was eventually overthrown and the French people were given the Declaration of the Rights of Man which includes their natural rights (liberty, fraternity, equality)
The next government was led by radical Jacobins led by Robespierre
That institutes the reign of terror
Utilize the guillotine to attack their political enemies (including the king and queen)
This led France into political and social chaos
European powers (Austria, Prussia, England) invade France to stop the french revolution restoring the monarchy and ending all enlightenment law
Shabbily eventually restored by French military leader napoleon bonaparte (1799-1815)
Defeats all of France's enemies and extends its borders to its largest size all across Europe
He also spreads enlightenment right throughout his European empire in the form of enlightenment laws called Napoleonic code/code Napoleon
In 1815 a European coalition of his enemies defeats him which results in the Congress of Vienna which establishes all European borders go back to the way they were before 1789 - before the revolution
Restore all former kings and queens and extinguish all enlightenment laws
Revolution of 1848 - French overthrow the king forever
Industrial Revolution in France due to political issues of enlightenment-based revolutions
Apart from the second industrial revolution
Imperialism in France
France was late to imperialize
Eventually, gain oversea territory in North Africa (modern-day Morocco and Algeria) southeast Asia (Indochina) vietnam cambodia
In 1900 are involved in the Boxer rebellion in China and eventually gain coastal cities which make them a member of the Spears of Influence at the Berlin conference
Franco-Prussian War 1870 to 1871 war between France and Germany that ends with Germany winning and declaring unification at the Palace of Versi
France lost the territory of Alsace Lorraine
Dreyfus affair - antisemitism
Jewish French military officer Alford Dreyfus is accused wrongly and jailed for being a German spy
Period 4
World War I
France was a member of the Allies who fought Germany on the Western front
France was one of the big four victors and eventually allow the peace conference to be held in Paris
France is the major contributor to the Treaty of Versi
Mandate system - France responsible for the formation of some middle eastern countries
Munich pact - France and Britain, agree with appeasement
World War II
France and Britain declare war on nazi germany after Hitler breaks the Munich Pact by invading Poland on September 1st, 1939
By mid-1940 Hitler has conquered much of Europe and eventually invaded France and defeated them quickly by bypassing the Maginot line
French forts were built along the franco german border
France under nazi occupation loses most of its industrial cities coastlines and even Paris
Left as a much smaller territory called viFranceance
France is liberated in the summer of 1944 by USA usa England and following the successful invasions at d day
Cold war
Receives economic aid from the rom US with the marshall plan
Member of nato and aligned with the USA
MemberEuropeanpean union (EU)
DecolonizationFranceance
France will lose almost all of its overseas properties
Will fight and Vietnam during the wars of independence and will gAlgeriaeria its independence based on popular opinion
Globalization - French newspaper that is attacked Islamic terrorism because they drew an image of the proxy hand hand