charles de gaulle
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NEW REPUBLICS IN FRANCE
By:
• valentina Andrade
• Juliana Diaz • Alejandra
Diaz
- Towns and cities were destroyed.- Farmlands were ravaged- Hardship for the French people.
Difficulties in postwar France
France adopted a new constitution and proclaimed the fourth republic. It fell during the late 1950s.
Fourth Republic
Charles de gaulle saved the nation from a civil war
Algeria want to be independent from france
The new constitution created france´s fifth
republic and strong presidency
Charles de gaulle was the first president of the
fifth republic
He accepted Algerian independence
France remained a political member of NATO
Fifth Republic
In 1960´s political conditions whitin france became unstable.
Gaulle dissolves the national assembly and called for general colelections.
In 1969 the french people rejected de gaullé´s proposed reform,and he ressigned from office
Charles de Gaulle was the man seen by many French people to have been their true leader in World War Two. He had a military background, but he quickly became the political figurehead of the Free French Movement that was based in Great Britain during WWII.
President of the Fifth Republic until 1969
He was born in 1890 at Lille. He decided on a career in the army and
he joined the 33rd Infantry Regiment led by the then Colonel Pétain.
He fought in WWII, there he was wounded, he experienced horrors but also the success of a mobile campaign.
In World War Two, Charles de Gaulle commanded an armored division .
Germany had a great deal of development, so France had to surrender.
He called on all French people to resist the Nazi occupiers. (Political role)
He became the head of the Free French movement.
France wasn’t part of the “Big three” because of the big differences between Roosevelt, de Gaulle and Churchill.