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The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

Timeline of Events

1945

10.21.1945

Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

1946

3.6.1946

Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

3.19.1946

French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas ''départements'' of France.

4.7.1946

Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.

7.5.1946

The bikini is re-introduced in Paris, France (it was a Roman invention).

10.13.1946

France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.

12.24.1946

France's Fourth Republic is founded.

1948

3.17.1948

Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.

1953

10.22.1953

Laos gains independence from France.

11.9.1953

Cambodia becomes independent from France.

1954

3.13.1954

Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.

10.31.1954

Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.

1955

8.20.1955

In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.

1956

3.20.1956

Tunisia gains independence from France.

7.23.1956

The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.

10.31.1956

Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

11.7.1956

Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

1957

3.31.1957

Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.

1958

6.1.1958

Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.

9.28.1958

France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.

10.2.1958

Guinea declares its independence from France.

10.4.1958

Fifth Republic of France is established.

1960

1.1.1960

The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

2.13.1960

Nuclear weapons testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.

3.4.1960

French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.

4.27.1960

Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.

6.26.1960

Madagascar gains its independence from France.

7.20.1960

Belgium defends its intervention in the Congo to the United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the United States and France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute.

8.1.1960

Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.

8.3.1960

Niger gains independence from France.

8.13.1960

The Central African Republic declares independence from France.

8.15.1960

Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.

8.17.1960

Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.

10.22.1960

Independence of Mali from France.

11.28.1960

Mauritania becomes independent of France.

1961

1.8.1961

In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.

1962

7.5.1962

Algeria becomes independent from France.

8.22.1962

An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.

1963

1.22.1963

The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.

10.10.1963

France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.

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