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Overview. Joy upon the recovery of Strasbourg. The enormous cost of the war to France, human and material. The hard French line at the Versailles peace conference. Swinging 1920s Paris. France's strength in the 1920s. The occupation of the Ruhr and France's isolation. The failure of the . and Britain to meet the promise of a French border guarantee. France's eventual response: a network of alliances and the building of the Maginot Line. The Maginot Line's drain on France's military funding and its impact on the mentality of the French army. The impact of the Great Depression. Social divisions. Political extremism and political instability. Riots in Paris February 1934. Germany's remilitarisation of the Rhineland and reasons for France's weak response. France's international position in the mid 1930s. Rising social and political divisions. The Popular Front. Divisions over the Spanish Civil War. Rearmament drive from 1936. France's paralysis at the time of Anschluss 19
