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The Sykes–Picot Agreement (/ ˈsaɪks ˈpiːkoʊ, - pɪˈkoʊ, - piːˈkoʊ / [1]) was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russia and Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire. The agreement was based on the premise that the ...
In December 1917 France broke relations and supported the anti-Bolshevik cause. It supported the White Guard in the Russian Civil War and Poland in the war of 1920. It also recognised Pyotr Wrangel, the military leader of South Russia and the leader of the White Caucasus Army, as the legitimate head of state of Russia. [1] France also wanted to ...
France–Russia relations. France–Russia relations, also known as Franco-Russian relations or Russo-French relations, are the bilateral relations between the French Republic and the Russian Federation. France has an embassy in Moscow, whereas Russian has an embassy in Paris. Relations have historically been complicated, and have been more ...
The Kerensky offensive (Russian: Наступление Керенского), also called the summer offensive, the June offensive (Russian: Июньское наступление) in Russia, or the July offensive in Western historiography, took place from 1 July [O.S. 18 June] to 19 July [O.S. 6 July] 1917 and was the last Russian offensive of World War I.
On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany which included a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. [2] Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.
The fateful alliance: France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War (1984) ; covers 1890 to 1894. Keiger, John F. V. (1983). France and the origins of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 9780333285527. Keiger, J.F.V. France and the World since 1870 (2001) Mansergh, Nicholas (1949). The Coming of the First World War. London: Longmans ...
Territorial evolution of France. Dynamic map of the European frontiers of France from 985 to 1947. This article describes the process by which metropolitan France - that part of France that is located in Europe, excluding its various overseas territories - came to consist of the territory it does today. Its current borders date from 1947.
1917 Franco-Russian agreement. The 1917 Franco-Russian agreement was a secret treaty between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire to support one another's territorial claims in settlement following the First World War. Under the agreement France recognised Russia's claim to any portions of Poland that she could occupy, and Russia ...