1. Paige Ebanks PJ Meas Mrs. Baker IB English
The Totally Rad History of Algeria

2. Petroleum, natural gas, lead, zinc
Background Info
Algiers
28 00 N, 3 00 E
North Africa
Sahara Desert
Petroleum, natural gas, lead, zinc
Arabic

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. Late 1900s (continued)
: Ahmed Ben Bella became prime minister. He served as president from 1963 to 1965
:Mouloud Hamrouche served as prime minister. Abdelaziz Bouteflika served as foreign minister
1965:Col. Houari Boumedienne overthrew President Ahmed Ben Bella

10. 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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