Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front - Milestone Documents

Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front

( 1954 )

Glossary

  • Algerian problem how the French saw the increasingly insistent demands for independence on the part of non-European Algerians
  • events in Morocco and Tunisia anticolonialist actions on the part of radical groups in the Maghreb
  • immobilisme inability to make decisions because of instability in government
  • National Revolutionary Movement not the name of an organization; simply the various groups that had worked for independence from France
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Charles de Gaulle (Library of Congress)

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