WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Algeria
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Malaysia
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Indonesia
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South Africa
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Detailed explanation-1: -Considered as a French province, Algeria was departmentalised on 9 December 1848, thereby operating according to the same administrative structure as metropolitan France. Three civil zones (départements) replaced the three beyliks into which the Ottoman former rulers had divided the territory.
Detailed explanation-2: -The conquest of Algeria was initiated in the last days of the Bourbon Restoration by Charles X, as an attempt to increase his popularity amongst the French people, particularly in Paris, where many veterans of the Napoleonic Wars lived.
Detailed explanation-3: -It took France about 70 years to fully control Algeria since occupying it on July 5, 1830.
Detailed explanation-4: -From the French invasion on 18 June 1830 until its independence, Algeria was administratively part of France; its European population were simply called Algerians or colons (colonists), whereas the Muslim people of Algeria were called Arabs, Muslims or Indigenous.