The provinces of Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France following World War I. It was done as part of the Treaty of Versailles in order to punish Germany.
Germany was fractured into warring Provinces in the Religious Wars of the Protestant Reformation. Protestant and Catholic Provinces were not reunited until Otto Von Bismarck in 1870. He immediately embarked on Wars of Aggrandizement against France 1871, Austria, and against Poland.
France's reason for seeking revenge against Germany was a result of the Franco-Prussian war. France lost and Germany took some of their land.
No, France gave in to Germany, and Germany then took over France. We did not help them. Not in World War I, the war the question asks about. Britain joined France in its fight againt Germany during the first World War.
France and Britain didn't did anything in an responce to Germany's expansion of territory. They didn't do anything when Germany re-conquerd the Rhineland.
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The regions of Alsace and Lorraine were taken by France from Germany in 1871.
France Wanted to regain lands previously seized by Germany
The provinces of Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France following World War I. It was done as part of the Treaty of Versailles in order to punish Germany.
France gained the provinces called Alsace and Lorraine. They originally were a part of France, but then the Germans took over the provinces during the Franco-Prussian War before World War I. After World War I, France gained them back.
provinces In France, there are Régions and Départements.
Because after the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 the new German Empire took 2 provinces (Alsace and Lorraine) away from France. France regained them in 1919.
France and Germany. Germany annexed Alsace and Lorraine from France at the end of the 1870 war. Both provinces became French again in 1918.