WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

NEW NATIONS EMERGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The FLN helped what country win its independence from the French?
A
Ghana
B
Kenya
C
Algeria
D
Congo
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (French: Front de Libération Nationale – FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France.

Detailed explanation-2: -Independence and one-party state The war for independence continued until March 1962, when the French government finally signed the Évian Accords, a ceasefire agreement with the FLN.

Detailed explanation-3: -In response to the FLN challenge, French authorities deployed the 10th Parachute Division to Algiers, where it brutally suppressed the F LN. but alienated much international and domestic French public opinion because its members resorted to torture on a wide scale.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1959 Charles de Gaulle declared that the Algerians had the right to determine their own future. Despite terrorist acts by French Algerians opposed to independence and an attempted coup in France by elements of the French army, an agreement was signed in 1962, and Algeria became independent.

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