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

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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 ( ) 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-France with 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 ( ) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser

General Jacques Massu ( )

An iconic movie

Frantz Fanon ( )

Algiers, 1958: A popular uprising demands Charles 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” ( )

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 ( )

Rejecting the French empire: Guinea’s Sékou Toure declares independence, October 1958

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