Entente

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The Entente symbolizes the last remnants of allied nations opposed to the German Empire and the Central Powers during the Weltkrieg. With the Syndicalist revolutions in their home countries, the Entente is comprised primarily of the British and French governments-in-exile based in their far-flung colonies. Portugal, while nominally a member, still has to renew its formal treaties with Great Britain, and enjoys excellent relations with the Entente as a whole.

History[]

The Entente Cordial (Cordial Agreement) was signed in 1904 between the French Republic and United Kingdom and marked a sharp turn in Franco-British foreign policy from one of mutual distrust to one of cordiality. The agreement was designed to resolve colonial disagreements between the two powers and cooperate on certain colonial ventures. With the outbreak of the Weltkrieg in 1914, the Entente found itself strengthened through alliance with numerous co-belligerents against the Central Powers. By the end of the war, the Entente had become a name synonymous with the Allies of the war as a whole, and many of the Allies who remained following the end of the conflict formed the nucleus of the Entente military alliance, with the defeated French and British as its leaders.

Following the French Civil War after the Great War, Britain remained as the leader of the Entente, as the French Republic faltered against revolutionary forces and fled to Algeria. Britain remained in this precarious state until 1925, when the British Revolution upended British leadership of the Entente, by the end of the civil war the British government in London fled the oncoming revolutionaries for Canada, where they attempted to continue on, passing the leadership of the Entente from the defunct United Kingdom, to the stable Dominion of Canada.

Membership[]

Current Members[]

Dominion of Canada (Since 1904, founding member through the British Government in Exile)
Union of South Africa (since 1904)
Australasian Confederation (Since 1904 prior to the merger of former Dominions of Australia and New Zealand in 1924)
West Indies Federation (Since 1904, the formation of the W.I.F came about as a merger of Franco-British island colonies in the Caribbean)
British India (Since 1904)
French Republic (Since 1904, founding member)

Entente-Aligned Nations[]

Kingdom of Portugal (Since 1916)
Kingdom of Sardinia (Since 1915, membership carried over following the collapse of the Italian Federation in 1926)

Former Members & Allies[]

United Kingdom (1904-1925, Membership carried over to Canada via the British Government in Exile)
Russian Empire (1907-1917)
Kingdom of Serbia (1914-1918)
Kingdom of Montenegro (1914-1918)
Kingdom of Belgium (1914-1919)
Empire of Japan (1914-1919)
Kingdom of Romania (1916-1918)
Kingdom of Greece (1917-1918)
Kingdom of Hejaz (1917-1920)