WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tunisia became a protectorate of France by treaty rather than by outright conquest, as was the case in Algeria.

Detailed explanation-2: -All legally established territory of Italian North Africa was dissolved by early 1943, but Tunisia remained the last de facto Italian administered territory until all Tunisia fell to American and British forces.

Detailed explanation-3: -The French wished to take control of Tunisia, which neighboured their existing colony of Algeria, and to suppress Italian and British influence there. At the Congress of Berlin in 1878, a diplomatic arrangement was made for France to take over Tunisia while Great Britain obtained control of Cyprus from the Ottomans.