Why did france join ww1?

They involved units from nearly half of the French infantry divisions stationed on the western front. The mutinies were kept secret at the time, and their full extent and intensity were not revealed for a half century. read more

France was invaded. She didn’t join as she had no choice. It was fight or give up your country, so the French fought and that fight bled the country of more young men than we can comprehend from a distance of 100 years. France didn’t join the war, france was not given a choice. read more

On the afternoon of this day in 1914, two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declares war on France, moving ahead with a long-held strategy, conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army, Alfred von Schlieffen, for a two-front war against France and Russia. read more