1. Decolonization: Europe’s Last Wars? History 337 / February 13, 2012

3. Indonesian independence from the Netherlands, 1949 (here: Ahmed Sukarno)

4. French Indochina (divides up into Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

5. Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) Here: with Viet Minh forces, 1946

6. French Republic forces parachute into Dien Bien Phu

7. The besieged French troops

8. Defeated French (and Foreign Legion) soldiers, May 1954

9. Negotiations in Geneva: Pierre Mendès-France with Chinese Prime Minister Zhou En-Lai

10. The Geneva Accords (July 1954) prescribe a temporarily divided Vietnam

11. Algeria in French eyes: three coastal departments of France

12. FLN fighters in Algeria, 1957 Bombs discovered in the home of an FLN supporter

13. Ahmed Ben Bella (1918 - ) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser

14. General Jacques Massu (1908-2002)

15. An iconic movie

16. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)

17. Algiers, 1958: A popular uprising demands Charles de Gaulle’s return to power

18. France’s new constitution: The Fifth Republic

19. De Gaulle as President (December 1958)

20. British soldiers during the “Malay Emergency” (1948-1960)

21. British suppression of the “Mau-Mau” rebellion in Kenya

22. President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal

23. The plotters: Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet

24. The Franco-British-Israeli intervention (Oct. 1956)

25. Macmillan and Eisenhower: The US-UK “Special Relationship”

26. The first British colony to win independence: Gold Coast (now Ghana)

27. Working with the French empire: Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Ivory Coast (1905-1993)

28. Rejecting the French empire: Guinea’s Sékou Toure declares independence, October 1958

29. “Winds of change”: Macmillan in Cape Town, February 1960