algerian data points (kill me now)

Mokrani Revolt (1871)

Muslik uprising against french colonialism

18 years

War of Conquest

May 1945

Setif Massacre

1 million

Pieds Noirs

9 million

Algerians

75%

Population of Muslims illiterate in Arabic

Union Democratique du Manifeste Algerien

UDMA - wanted equality and autonomy within a french state

Ulema

Wanted statehood based on traditional Islamic law

Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties

MTLD - combination of islamic values and a socialist agenda, advocated for full independence from France

Front de Liberation Nationale

FLN - primary voice of Algerian nationalist movement shoot of from MLTD

Comitié Revolutionnaire d’unité et d’Action

CRUA - FLN leadership body organized to direct the war

Neuf Historiques

Leaders of CRUA including Ahmed Ben Bella

Phillippeville August 1955

Collective responsibility example, attacks on civiliants by French

October 1956

Ben Bella and 4 other FLN leaders are captured and imprisoned in France for the rest of the conflict

The Battle of Algiers

Example of City Warfare

Terrorism

Method by FLN

Torture

Method by French

The Morice Line

Militarized frontier fence between Algeria and Tunisia

May 1958

A mob of pieds-noirs storm the government and with the support of army call for the reinstatement of Charles De Gaulle

September 1959

Increasingly convinced that French control of Algeria cannot be maintained, De Gaulle announces support for Algerian “self-determination”

1960

Colonek Hourari Boumedienne becomes chief of the Armée de Libération Nationale (ALN) and trains a 30,000 force in Tunisia

ALN Armée de Liberation Nationale

Tunisia based Algerian Army

June 1960

De Gaulle opens negotiations with FLN

April 21 - april 26 1961

Attempted coup d’etat by generals to force de gaulle not to abandon french algeria

July 1968

4 generals granted amnesty

Harkis

Algerians serving with french army

Organisation Armée Secrète

OAS Pieds noirs terrorist organization

Evian Accords 1962

Permanent ceasefire and removal of french forces and more relations between france and algeria

Algerian Independence Day

July 5, 1962

July 3 1962

De gaulle declares Algeria to be an independent nation

Oran Massacre of July 5 1962

On the day of Algerian independence, there was a slaughter of minority Algerians with French ancestry in Oran

September 1963

Ben Bella elected first president of algeria

June 1965

Houari Boumedienne overthrew ben bella in a military bloodless coup