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The Franco-British Union was a proposed union in the 20th century to unite the United Kingdom and the Republic of France during the second World War. This hypothetical union would have united their militaries, government, and the foreign policy of both nations.
Franco-British Union; French migration to the United Kingdom; Hundred Years' War; List of British French; List of ambassadors from the Kingdom of England to France (up to 1707) List of ambassadors of Great Britain to France (from 1707 to 1800). List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France (since 1800)
France had only the Franco-Russian Alliance. The agreement threatened Germany, whose policy had long relied on Franco-British antagonism. A German attempt to check the French in Morocco in 1905 (the Tangier Incident, or First Moroccan Crisis), and thus to upset the Entente, served only to strengthen it.
Franco-British Union France United Kingdom: 1904–1956 No A Franco-British Union is a concept for a union between the two independent sovereign states of the United Kingdom and France. Such a union was proposed during certain crises of the 20th century; it has some historical precedents.
During the early stages of World War II, the United Kingdom and France made a series of proposals to send troops to assist Finland against the Soviet Union during the Winter War, which started on 30 November 1939. The plans involved the transit of British and French troops and equipment through neutral Norway and Sweden. The initial plans were ...
[22]: 82–86 That afternoon, de Gaulle was in London discussing a proposed Franco-British Union—a plan hastily put together by Churchill and his advisers to support Reynaud against those favouring an armistice and to keep France, especially its naval fleet, in the war alongside Britain. De Gaulle called Reynaud to inform him of the British ...
Franco-Austrian alliance: 1812–1813 Franco-Russian alliance: 1892–1917 Entente Cordiale: 1904–present Franco-Polish alliance: 1921–1940 Franco-Italian alliance: 1935 Franco-Soviet alliance: 1936–1939 Treaty of Dunkirk: 1947–1997 Western Union: 1948–1954 North Atlantic Alliance: 1949–present Western European Union: 1954–2011 ...
The Franco-British Council is an organisation created on the joint initiative of President Georges Pompidou and Prime Minister Edward Heath in order to promote better understanding between United Kingdom and France and to contribute to the development of joint action through meetings of leading representatives of the worlds of culture, science, education, politics and business in the context ...