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__Chapter 1__ __THE 'NEW ERA' : HOPES FOR PEACE IN 1929__
 * Part 1: An Uneasy Peace, 1929-35**


 * Locarno and the 'New Era'**
 * in 1925
 * hopes for world peace
 * Swiss town of Locarno
 * leading European statesmen met for a conference
 * discussed problems that is not settled at the end of the Great War
 * Germany and France on bad terms after GW
 * hostility deepened in 1923 - French and Belgian armies occupied Germany's Ruhr Valley after German gov said that it could not pay for damage done to France and Belgium.
 * result
 * Locarno Treaties
 * 1) France, Germany, and Belgium
 * agreeing to respect each other's borders
 * Germany would never attack France and Belgium (like in 1914)