Algeria Gains Independence
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution, Geography
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Human Rights
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History, African History
- Geographical Location: Algeria
- Date: July 5, 1962
Article abstract: Algerian independence ended 132 years of brutal French colonialism in which European settlers were granted citizenship and the majority of Algerian Muslims were denied civil and political rights.
Summary of Event
The struggle for independence in Algeria, one of the most bitter and protracted independence movements, was also the one involving the largest measure of Arab-world support. First occupied by the French in 1830, Algeria endured more than a century of brutal domination in which Algerian land was appropriated and assigned to...
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