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The Channel Tunnel (French: Le tunnel sous la Manche; also referred to as the Chunnel) [188] [189] is a 50.5-kilometre (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel (linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near the city of Calais in northern France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
France and the League of Nations was a major theme of French foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s. France and the United Kingdom were the two dominant players in world affairs and in League affairs, and usually were in agreement. [1] The League proved ineffective in resolving major problems.
Movietone News was a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. Under the name British Movietone News, it also ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986, in France also produced by Fox-Europa, in Spain in the early 1930s as Noticiario Fox Movietone [1] before being replaced by No-Do, in Australia and New Zealand until 1970, and Germany as Fox Tönende Wochenschau from 1930 to ...
It comes amid warnings that the threat to Britain from hostile states is the highest since the Cold War.
England–France relations (6 C, 24 P) English-language French films (970 P) F. France–Scotland relations (7 C, 11 P) ... November 2021 English Channel disaster;
Interwar France covers the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural and social history of France from 1918 to 1939. France suffered heavily during World War I in terms of lives lost, disabled veterans and ruined agricultural and industrial areas occupied by Germany as well as heavy borrowing from the United States, Britain, and the French people.
[108] [109] France's military alliance with Czechoslovakia was sacrificed at Hitler's demand when France and Britain agreed to his terms at Munich in 1938. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] The left-wing Léon Blum government in 1936–37 joined the right-wing Britain government in establishing an arms embargo during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39).
The United Kingdom is not accredited to Togo through a high commission; the UK develops relations through its high commission in Accra, Ghana. [286] The UK occupied Togo from 1914 to 1916, when Togo became a French mandate. Both countries share common membership of the Atlantic co-operation pact, [201] the Commonwealth, and the World Trade ...