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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 (1890-1969) Here: with Viet Minh forces, 1946.
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Decolonization: Europe’s Last Wars?History 337 / February 13, 2012
Indonesian independence from the Netherlands, 1949(here: Ahmed Sukarno)
Negotiations in Geneva: Pierre Mendès-Francewith Chinese Prime Minister Zhou En-Lai
The Geneva Accords(July 1954) prescribe a temporarily divided Vietnam
FLN fighters in Algeria, 1957 Bombs discovered in the home of an FLN supporter
Ahmed Ben Bella (1918 - ) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser
Algiers, 1958: A popular uprising demandsCharles de Gaulle’s return to power
British soldiers during the “Malay Emergency” (1948-1960)
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(1905-1993)
Rejecting the French empire: Guinea’s SékouToure declares independence, October 1958