2. - Towns and cities were destroyed.
- Farmlands were ravaged
- Hardship for the French people.
3. France adopted a new constitution
and proclaimed the fourth republic. It
fell during the late 1950s.
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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.