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