decolonization: europe’s last wars? history 337 / february 13, 2012
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Decolonization: Europe’s Last Wars?History 337 / February 13, 2012
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Indonesian independence from the Netherlands, 1949(here: Ahmed Sukarno)
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French Indochina(divides up into
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
Here: with Viet Minh forces,1946
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French Republic forces parachute into Dien Bien Phu
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The besieged French troops
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Defeated French (and Foreign Legion) soldiers, May 1954
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Negotiations in Geneva: Pierre Mendès-Francewith Chinese Prime Minister Zhou En-Lai
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The Geneva Accords(July 1954) prescribe a
temporarily divided Vietnam
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Algeria in French eyes:three coastal departments of France
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FLN fighters in Algeria, 1957
Bombs discovered in the home of an FLN
supporter
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Ahmed Ben Bella (1918 - ) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser
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General Jacques Massu (1908-2002)
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An iconic movie
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Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
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Algiers, 1958: A popular uprising demandsCharles de Gaulle’s return to power
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France’s new constitution:
The Fifth Republic
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De Gaulle as President (December 1958)
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British soldiers during the “Malay Emergency”
(1948-1960)
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British suppression of the “Mau-Mau” rebellion in Kenya
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President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal
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The plotters: Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet
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The Franco-British-Israeli intervention (Oct. 1956)
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Macmillan and Eisenhower:The US-UK “Special
Relationship”
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The first British colony to win independence:
Gold Coast (now Ghana)
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Working with the French empire:
Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Ivory Coast
(1905-1993)
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Rejecting the French empire:
Guinea’s Sékou Toure declares
independence, October 1958
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“Winds of change”: Macmillan in Cape Town, February 1960
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