Homework

Assignment #2
#1. List five historical ties since 1914 between your country and the two other countries assigned for this homework.
-Ties with China:
The French government commits itself to reaffirming the one-China principle stating that Taiwan will still be a part of China.
France and China are a part of the France-China Cultural Exchange Program.
Both are part of the United Nations Security Council
France and China are part of the P5+1 Group

-Ties with India:
Signed a contract with India in 2000 helping to train soldiers
Had a peaceful cession at pondicherry in 1954
Began trading nuclear weapons with India in 1998

#2. Has your country fought any significant wars, or battles, against each other directly, indirectly or through proxy since 1914? List the wars, or proxy wars, these countries have fought against yours since 1914?
-Wars with China:
Sino-French War
World War II
Second Opium War

-Wars with India:
No significant wars between the two countries

#3. Does your country have any significant religious disagreements with the two other countries assigned that reach back through the centuries?
-France’s only religious conflict with China is in the Tibet affair. The countries were in a conflict about Tibet, and France thought that the conflict war a religious one. The argument had to deal with sovereignty.
-France has no conflicts religiously with India

#4. Historically has the relationship been your countries and the two other countries been amicable, hostile, or neutral?
The relationship with China has been mostly neutral. China and France have had a few hostile conflicts, for example the Tibet Affair which has since been resolved. But China and France have also had some amicable affairs, for example the exchange of students to learn the language better, and the military training program.
France has also had an amicable relationship with India, because the two countries have never fought in a significant war. One reason for the amicable relationship is that France traded nuclear arms to India.

#5. How do their government systems compare?
My country is a republic China is a communist state.
India and my country have the same type of government.

#6. What major military and political treaties does your country share with the other countries since The Treat of Versailles?
-Paris Peace Treaties
-Maastricht Treaty


#7. Is your country currently recognized by the United Nations?
My country is currently recognized by the United Nations

#8. Does your country share the same type of economic system as the two countries you are asked to compare? What is this type of economy? If they are different economies what is the difference between the two?
My countries economic system is more closely related to China’s economy rather than India’s. China and France’s economic systems are based on market-oriented economies. India’s economy is mainly focused on farming.

Assignment #1

#1. What is your country’s governmental system?
France’s government is a republic, a state in which the supreme power rests in the body citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly of indirectly by them.

#2.List five important events in your country’s history since 1914. -Hosted the Summer Olympics in 1924, the Winter Olympics in 1924, 1968, 1992
-The Foundation of the European Union in 1951
-Launched the Euro Coins in 1999
-World War I
-World War II

3. What is your country’s economic system?
At the moment France is in the midst of a transition from a modern economy that was government controlled to one that relies more on market mechanisms.

4. List your nation’s five largest trading partners?
Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, US

5. What is the monetary size of your domestic and foreign debt?
France’s debt is around 5.4 Trillion

6. To which country does your country owe the most money?
France owes the most money to the United Kingdom

7. What is the numerical size of your standing and reserve armed forces?
France has around 780,000 standing forces and around 420,000 reserved forces.

8. Are you a nuclear power?
Yes

9. List your country’s most important cultural values?
The culture of France and of the French people has been shaped by geography, by profound historical events, and by foreign and internal forces and groups. France, and in particular Paris, has played an important role as a center of high culture and of decorative arts since the seventeenth century, first in Europe, and from the nineteenth century on, world wide. From the late nineteenth century, France has also played an important role in modern art, cinema, fashion and cuisine. The importance of French culture has waned and waxed over the centuries, depending on its economic, political and military importance. French culture today is marked both by great regional and socioeconomic differences and by strong unifying tendencies.

10. To what extent if any does your government control media and culture?
The French government controls the media by controlling the names for the TV stations. Nicolas Sarkozy and the rest of the French government decide with the names for the stations. The President Nicolas Sarkozy called his change of the station names a culture revolution.

11. List your country’s most important resources?
Some of the most important resources are wheat, beets, potatoes, wine grapes, beef, dairy products, and fish.

12. List the important resources your country is lacking? I.e., what does it need to import a great deal of?
France lacks oil, and imports vehicles, aircrafts, plastics, and other chemicals.

13. What is you country’s population?
France’s total population is 64,057,792.

14. What is your country’s main religion?
What percentage people is this religion?The main religion in France is Roman Catholic, and about 85% of the population is this religion.

15. List other religions, if any, which play an important role in your country?The other main religions that play an important role are Jewish and Muslim.

16. What is your government’s policy towards religion and state?
There is no policy because France is a republic.