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  Entente - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Entente Cordiale, 1904 between France and the United Kingdom.
The Little Entente, 1920 to 1938 between Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia.
The Council of the Entente, 1959 between Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger and (in 1966) Togo.
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 Little Entente --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Little Turtle was allied with the British during the American Revolution, and in 1780 he led the defense of his village against attacking French troops.
Little Wolf was a signer of the Fort Laramie Treaty in...
Little House in the Census: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder
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 Encyclopedia: Triple Entente
The Triple Entente was the alliance formed in 1907 between the United Kingdom, France and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente.
The Entente Cordiale (French for friendly understanding) is a series of agreements signed on April 8, 1904, between the United Kingdom and France.
With the addition of Italy in 1915, the Triple Entente was the force that opposed the Central Powers during World War I.
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 Little Entente. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Yugoslavia and Romania were also members of the Balkan Entente, formed in 1934.
The Little Entente was successful in its aims until the rise of Hitler in Germany, when French prestige was gradually displaced by German economic penetration and political pressure.
It began to break apart in 1936 and was effectively ended when Czechoslovakia lost its membership by the formation of the Munich Pact (1938).
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France saw in the Little Entente the potential to revitalize the threat of a two-front war against Germany in the interests of French security.
Balkan Entente was loose alliance formed in 1934 by Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, and Turkey to safeguard their territorial integrity against Bulgarian revisionism.
It thus was in harmony with the Little Entente.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Little Entente
Little Entente, political and economic alliance of Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia from 1920 to 1938.
Two formal meetings of representatives of the states composing the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia) are reported for 1938.
On May 6 in Sinaia, Rumania, and at Bled, Yugoslavia, during the third week in August, the much-considered question of relations between Hungary and...
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A Permanent Council of the States of the Little Entente shall be set up as the administrative organ of the common policy of the group of the three States, composed of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the three respective countries or of the special delegates appointed for that purpose.
An Economic Council of the States of the Little Entente shall be set up with a view to the gradual coordination of economic interests of the three States, either among themselves or in their relations with third States.
Thay is why the Permanent Council of the Little Entente, at its session in Geneva, adopted this Pact in keeping with the spirit of the League of Nations and the past treaties which were renewed for an indefinite period of time.
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 Western betrayal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In addition, the French tried to turn the Little Entente of Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia which been set up as a anti-Hungarian alliance in 1921 into a anti-German alliance.
Therefore their support was limited; for example, many French and British politicians considered that the industrial region of Silesia should remain with Germany, so that Germany would have an easier time paying off the war debts and contributions to France and its allies.
Germany had little in the way of oil, and relied almost totally upon imports to fulfill her needs.
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 ipedia.com: Triple Entente Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Triple Entente was the alliance formed in 1908 between the United Kingdom, France and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente.
Though not a military alliance, the alignment of the three powers (supplemented by various agreements with Japan, the United States and Spain) constituted a powerful counterweight to the "Triple Alliance" of Imperial Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, (the latter having concluded an additional secret agreement with France effectively nullifying her alliance commitments).
With the addition of Italy in 1915, the Triple Entente was the force that opposed the Triple Alliance during World War I.
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 Little Entente on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
NAPOLEON III, LORD PALMERSTON AND THE ENTENTE CORDIALE.
The radical entente: new threat to U.S. (collaboration of anti-Western radicals in North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Serbia and Russia) (Column)
The fishy heart of the Entente Cordiale The agreement over the lobster symbolised the genuine affection between Britain and France.
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 AllRefer.com - Little Entente (Treaties And Alliances) - Encyclopedia
Little Entente[AntAnt´] Pronunciation Key, loose alliance formed in 1920–21 by Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
Its specific purposes were the containment of Hungarian revisionism (of the terms of the World War I peace treaty) and the prevention of a restoration of the Hapsburgs.
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Chirac shows little entente and less cordiality
Tony Blair is his natural opponent these days, as smooth as the French president, but 20 years younger and an unapologetic rival for the role of informal leader of the EU.
Little wonder then that Mr Chirac was rude about UK negotiating tactics this week, all those "red lines" to weaken the draft constitution, compounded by a refusal to back the Franco-German candidate, Belgium's Guy Verhofstadt, for the presidency of the European commission.
Weeks ago both leaders helped celebrate 100 years of the entente cordiale between their countries.
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 Modern History Sourcebook: Eduard Beneš: The Rationale for The Little Entente, 1924
Ever since the time of the creation of the Little Entente---formally directed against Magyar irredentism and nationalism, in reality against post-War disorder, attempted "putsches", unrest, uncertainty and all the excesses from the Right and the Left---we have not ceased to negotiate with Hungary precisely on the basis of these piinciples.
Some considered it to be too much, whilst others thought it to be too little; as far as we were concerned, it was merely a continuation of our policy from which we shall not diverge even an inch.
Between the Little Entente and Poland there has several times been close cooperation in questions common to both, and especially at the Genoa Conference.
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 The Militant - December 30, 2002 -- Trotsky: imperialist conflicts on eve of World War II
Rumania formally belongs to the Little Entente but is drawn by Poland, not unsuccessfully, into the orbit of German-Italian influence.
I am little inclined to share the hope that the proletariat will be able at the necessary moment to resist with force the commencement of war operations.
On the contrary, in the months of approaching war danger as well as during the first period of war, the masses will be dominated by centripetal, patriotic tendencies with the force of a natural reflex.
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 Historical Text Archive: E-Books : Hungary: The Unwilling Sate...: 4: Revisionism in Hungary
The Little Entente demanded that Hungary abjure revisionism and accept the status quo, which was asking for the impossible.
I am certain that there never was a time while I was there that the Little Entente, by making some slight territorial concessions to Hungary, could not have cleared the whole situation.
In the Danubian Basin, her policy was purely militaristic, dominated by the idea that Hungary and Austria, being non-Slavic and therefore perhaps amenable to German allurements, should be kept down by the Little Entente.
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The countries united in the Little Entente were aiming at a more favorable defence of the booty accumulated during the war.
At first little heed was paid to the Bureau in these endeavors, but it later secured the active support especially of the Food Estate; through its cooperation, e.
He had earlier succeeded in upsetting the position of Foreign Minister Titolescu, the agent of Franco, of the Geneva League of Nations and of the Little Entente- Titolescu was later overthrown.
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 Introduction10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Moreover, there was little scope for action in Central Europe and the Balkans, where Italy might have hoped to gain influence.
Italy was invited to participate in the Locarno Agreements (1925) and this confirmed her status as one of the European powers.
Her recognition of the Soviet Union (1924) failed to establish a counter-weight to the Entente powers or to provide a viable trade partner.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Little Entente -- May. 23, 1927
Their dean, the co-founder (1920) of the Little Entente was Dr. Edouard Benes (pronounced Benesh), Foreign Minister and leading statesman of Czechoslovakia.
It was certain that they were discussing the threat to the Little Entente of Italy's alliance with Hungary (TIME, April 18) and Albania (TIME, Dec. 13).
Because the Little Entente "Big Three" believe in secret, old-school diplomacy they permitted the 60 correspondents who hovered about their meeting place to discover absolutely nothing of what passed.
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 Romania The Agrarian Crisis and the Rise of the Iron Guard - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1920 and 1921, Romania had joined with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia to form the Little Entente, agreeing to work against a possible Habsburg restoration and oppose German, Hungarian, and Bulgarian efforts to seek treaty revisions.
France had backed the agreement because it hemmed in Germany along its eastern frontiers, and the three Little Entente nations had signed bilateral treaties with France between 1924 and 1927.
The Little Entente weakened in 1937, when Yugoslavia signed a bilateral pact with Bulgaria, and Hitler gutted it altogether in September 1938, when he duped Britain and France into signing the Munich Agreement, which allowed Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
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 Chronology 1933
Another shipment of arms from Italy to Hungary was intercepted leading the Little Entente powers to take a strong stand against Hungarian rearmament.
In response to the rise of fascism in Germany and growing irredentism in Hungary, the members of the Little Entente met in Geneva to reorganize their alliance system.
In addition, the treaties establishing the Little Entente became indefinite in duration.
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 SEECP
In close link with its allies from Little Entente, Nicolae Titulescu, the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, held substantial talks with heads of States and Governments from the Balkan countries in order to conclude an agreement to preserve their security and independence.
The Balkan Entente was created on 9th of February 1934, when the ministers of foreign affairs of Romania, Turkey, Greece, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Pact of Balkan Entente.
In February 1940, the Balkan Entente member States, convened in their last meeting session, have decided to extend their commitments and to jointly defend themselves against any potential aggressor.
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 Trianon Hungary
If, in the negotiations which began at the end of 1934 between Italy and France, France had been able to persuade her allies of the Little Entente to make any concessions of substance to Hungary, Hungary might yet have found herself a member of a new European combination directed against Germany.
A little later, when Darányi tried to reach a working agreement with the most important of the extremist parties of the Right, Ferenc Szálasi's Arrow Cross, Horthy dismissed him in favour of Béla Imrédy.
The re-creation (in shadow form) of the Little Entente was practically complete.
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 Eduard Benes
Benes compelled France to give his country military and political aid, and so under French guidance, Benes founded the "Little Entente" whose purpose was to unify the spoilers of Hungary (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) against the Magyars.  Throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s, Benes exerted great influence in Central European affairs.
On 15 March 1939, Hacha was bullied into signing an act calling for German protection.  The Wehrmacht entered Prague, and Bohemia-Moravia became a German protectorate with little political control.  Slovakia proclaimed its independence and became a free state under German military occupation.  Ruthenia was independent for one day until taken by the Hungarians.
WWII offered new hope to the Czechs in exile.  On 11 December 1940, the Czecho-Slovak State Council was formed in London, with Benes as President.  In 1941, the British acknowledged this council as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia.
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 Trenches on the Web - Timeline: 1871-1914 - Origins of the Great War
An "Entente Cordial," resolving various colonial disputes, was concluded between Britain and France in 1904.
The Anglo-Russian entente of 1907 created the "Triple Entente" consisting of Britain, France, and Russia.
Grey, along with Prime Minister Asquith, regarded the entente with France as an alliance and wanted to back the French militarily as soon as German mobilization was announced.
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 Little Entente
Little Entente, loose alliance formed in 1920–21 by Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
The overall aims of the Little Entente and the Balkan Entente, taken together, were the preservation of the territorial status quo, established by the treaties of Versailles, Saint-Germain, Trianon, and Neuilly, against the efforts of Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Bulgaria to have those treaties revised; the prevention of
England v France: a millennium of enmity; Entente less than cordiale: In Sydney tomorrow, two nations with historic rivalries will fight for a place in rugby's World Cup final.(News) (The Independent (London, England))
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 Friction with Hitler
Hungary was neither called upon nor was she in a position to guarantee Peace Treaties after the Western democracies, suffering from a fresh defeat in the Spanish Civil War, together with Mussolini had withdrawn their support from Austria.
Our agreements with the Little Entente states had, as I have said, been contingent on their giving us satisfactory guarantees for our minorities in their territories.
As Foreign Minister Kánya has just before signed an agreement of non-belligerence with the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Yugoslavia), after very long negotiations at Bled, Horthy was in firm position to reject the proposal.
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 This week in history
The previous August Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia had initiated the alliance, which was directed against the threat of renewed Hungarian power and the restoration of the Hapsburg Empire.
The Little Entente agreements of 1920- 21 were further steps along this road.
At the same time as it backed the Little Entente, French imperialism refused to sever its links with Britain, which was hostile to these new states.
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