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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.

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Decolonization: Europe’s Last Wars? History 337 / February 13, 2012

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  1. Decolonization: Europe’s Last Wars?History 337 / February 13, 2012

  2. Indonesian independence from the Netherlands, 1949(here: Ahmed Sukarno)

  3. French Indochina(divides up into Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

  4. Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)Here: with Viet Minh forces,1946

  5. French Republic forces parachute into Dien Bien Phu

  6. The besieged French troops

  7. Defeated French (and Foreign Legion) soldiers, May 1954

  8. Negotiations in Geneva: Pierre Mendès-Francewith Chinese Prime Minister Zhou En-Lai

  9. The Geneva Accords(July 1954) prescribe a temporarily divided Vietnam

  10. Algeria in French eyes:three coastal departments of France

  11. FLN fighters in Algeria, 1957 Bombs discovered in the home of an FLN supporter

  12. Ahmed Ben Bella (1918 - ) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser

  13. General Jacques Massu (1908-2002)

  14. An iconic movie

  15. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)

  16. Algiers, 1958: A popular uprising demandsCharles de Gaulle’s return to power

  17. France’s new constitution:The Fifth Republic

  18. De Gaulle as President (December 1958)

  19. British soldiers during the “Malay Emergency” (1948-1960)

  20. British suppression of the “Mau-Mau” rebellion in Kenya

  21. President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal

  22. The plotters: Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet

  23. The Franco-British-Israeli intervention (Oct. 1956)

  24. Macmillan and Eisenhower:The US-UK “Special Relationship”

  25. The first British colony to win independence:Gold Coast (now Ghana)

  26. Working with the French empire:Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Ivory Coast(1905-1993)

  27. Rejecting the French empire: Guinea’s SékouToure declares independence, October 1958

  28. “Winds of change”: Macmillan in Cape Town, February 1960

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