France became an independent country in the ninth century. It was originally called Gaul and controlled by the Celts. The Romans took control of Gaul in the first century<span> B.C. After the fall of Rome, Germanic tribes known as the Franks conquered the area in the </span>fifth century<span> A.D.</span>
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Ethiopia
A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935.
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, America was forced to abandon an "isolationist" view of the war, since prior to the attack almost all Americans had wanted to stay out of the conflict.
<span>William Penn founded Pennsylvania to provide a refuge for Quakers.</span>