Prelude to Conflict, 2FIW: 1919-1938

Peacetime France: 1919-1938

                Following The First French Imperial War, France recovered quickly using debts from the Eastern European powers, prospering the country once more by 1921. Winston Georges, the current Prime Minister, had returned to France in 1918 as the French Colonial Armies pushed back the frontline German, Russian, and Italian Forces (numbering 15mil on the Western Front), and the Ottomans swung into Southern Russia, crushing Moscow and killing the Russian Czar.

       Winston Georges (1919-1924)

                Winston Georges, the twelfth Prime Minister of France, had weathered France through her first large scale war since the French Shipping War of 1815. In July 1918, the Parliament had outlawed Segregation and discrimination by race. In 1919, Georges presented his “12 Terms” for the surrender of the Eastern European Powers. It was signed in early April 1919,      and the Germans and Italians would begin sending debts starting in May 1919. In early June, when a French message requested the first Russian payment, no answer would be received. The news had yet to reach France (it would come from Germany following the next debt payment), but the Russian Czar had been overthrown and killed. Now a communist Russia had been founded, leading to increased hostilities between Russia and France.

                In 1920, the French invented the Radio, leading to radar in the late 1920s. In 1922, the French Air Force adopted the new Dassault Kitty Hawk, a variant of the American Biplane Company Kitty Hawk’s Kitty Hawk Variable Combat Plane. The Kitty Hawk was to be the first French aircraft used off Aircraft Carriers (in 1924) and would also become the first French Dive Bomber.

                In 1923, the French Colonial Corps was ordered to stand down, but her soldiers were given the option to transfer to an active duty unit. The French Armed Forces gained 300,000 Soldiers this way. In 1924, Georges ordered 100,000 soldiers to the border with Germany, and another 10,000 to the Swiss Alps for Alpine Training.

                Zacharie Flumer (1924-1936)

                Zacharie Flumer, (Pronounced Flumer, not Floomer) was elected as thirteenth Prime Minister of France in 1924. In 1925, he authorized the airman John Fulsom, an American, to land in Paris following the first ever Trans-Atlantic Flight.

                In 1926, he then authorized the French Airman Jeremy Courtemanche to start France Air, the first French Airline. In 1927, Flumer created the French Army Department of Sciences, and in the following year, the Department would employ 10,000 personnel and would invent the Radar. In 1929, the Germanic Dollar Crashed due to massive inflation. This would result in a thickening, horrible, almost apocalyptic Depression for the German People. While France and her allies sent aid to the Germans, a German Group known as “The Dark Ones” would take 95% of the shipments to provide for their own organization.

                In 1932, unbeknownst to the rest of the word, German council member Fredrick Von Hinsleburg, a secret Dark One, would be voted Chancellor. The German parliament voted him the Supreme Chancellor Position in early 1935 due to his supreme popularity with the German People. In 1936, Hinsleburg secretly began his extermination of Germanic Blacks, blaming them for the loss of WW1.