HIST 274 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: National Liberation Front (Algeria), Viet Minh, Algerian War
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Week 10 - the cold war, indochina, the algerian war. Previously vichy regime run by right wing fascists - collaborated with the nazis. Because of this completely discredited in france - lose support of french voters. French voters wanted to get rid of the third republic. Catholic democracy - liberal centered party, emergence of mainstream liberal catholicism - no longer identified with the political right - in france the catholic democratic party was called the. Did well in elections, but de gaulle lost control of his party in 1954 and disowned it, and left politics again. Too many groups, and only way a govt could form was by creating a coalition. 50s, govts always changing (new head of state, new cabinet ministers) - in fourth republic, every. 6 months cabinet fell apart - this was referred to as immobilisme - any serious crisis, the govt would fall apart and not able to get anything done.
