Paige Ebanks PJ Meas Mrs. Baker IB English The Totally Rad History of Algeria
Petroleum, natural gas, lead, zinc Background Info Algiers 28 00 N, 3 00 E North Africa Sahara Desert Petroleum, natural gas, lead, zinc Arabic
Early 1800s 1815: United States declares war on Algeria Stephen Decatur signs treaty Many small scale wars 1830: France occupies Algiers 1836: Thomas Bugeaud defeated Abd al-Kader's forces 1856: Napoleon III wanted to put an end to the ongoing revolt Jean-Eugene Robert Houdini
Early 1900s 1913: Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria. 1919: Ahmed Ben Bella was born 1940: British destroyed French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 died
Early 1900s (continued) 1942:Last Vichy French troops in Algeria surrendered 1944:The provisional government merged the Office Français d'Information and France-Afriq; forming the Agence Française de Presse (AFP) 1945:Algerian demonstrators in the town of Setif unfurled an Algerian flag, banned by the French
Mid 1900s 1954: France invades Algeria 1954: Algerian War begins 1955: Many were killed in an anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria 1956: French government sent 250,000 reservists to Algeria.
Mid 1900s (continued) 1957:Algerian rebels killed 336 collaborators. 1957:Algerian Berber revolutionary leader, was assassinated in Morocco 1958:French troops took control of Algiers as French settlers rioted against the French army
Late 1900s 1961:Paris police killed many Algerian demonstrators and threw bodies into the Seine 1962:The OAS (Organization of the Secret Army) started a series of bombings occuring in the opposition of Algeria’s independence 1962:Algeria gains independence from France
Late 1900s (continued) 1962-1963: Ahmed Ben Bella became prime minister. He served as president from 1963 to 1965 1963-1979:Mouloud Hamrouche served as prime minister. Abdelaziz Bouteflika served as foreign minister 1965:Col. Houari Boumedienne overthrew President Ahmed Ben Bella
Late 1900s (continued) 1971:Algeria nationalized French Oil Companies 1988:Violence began to subside in Algeria 1990:Algerian military forced Mouloud Hamrouche to resign as prime minister
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