NEW REPUBLICS IN FRANCE

By:

• valentina Andrade

• Juliana Diaz • Alejandra

Diaz

- Towns and cities were destroyed.- Farmlands were ravaged- Hardship for the French people.

Difficulties in postwar France

France adopted a new constitution and proclaimed the fourth republic. It fell during the late 1950s.

Fourth Republic

Charles de gaulle saved the nation from a civil war

Algeria want to be independent from france

The new constitution created france´s fifth

republic and strong presidency

Charles de gaulle was the first president of the

fifth republic

He accepted Algerian independence

France remained a political member of NATO

Fifth Republic

In 1960´s political conditions whitin france became unstable.

Gaulle dissolves the national assembly and called for general colelections.

In 1969 the french people rejected de gaullé´s proposed reform,and he ressigned from office

Charles de Gaulle was the man seen by many French people to have been their true leader in World War Two. He had a military background, but he quickly became the political figurehead of the Free French Movement that was based in Great Britain during WWII. 

President of the Fifth Republic until 1969

He was born in 1890 at Lille. He decided on a career in the army and

he joined the 33rd Infantry Regiment led by the then Colonel Pétain.

He fought in WWII, there he was wounded, he experienced horrors but also the success of a mobile campaign.

In World War Two, Charles de Gaulle commanded an armored division .

Germany had a great deal of development, so France had to surrender.

He called on all French people to resist the Nazi occupiers. (Political role)

He became the head of the Free French movement.

France wasn’t part of the “Big three” because of the big differences between Roosevelt, de Gaulle and Churchill.