CHARLES DE GAULLE

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• Born november 22 1890
• Died november 9 1970

LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• French brigadier general
• Statesman
• Led the free french forces during ww2
• Founded french fifth republic
• 1st president of France

LIST OF ACCOPLISHMENTS CONTINUED

• Minister of algerian affairs
• Secretary of state of war
• Prime minister

ST. CYR

• The military school charles excelled at
• 13th of his class in 1912

PRE-WW1

• He joined the french army as an officer after his year of training
• Talked to other officers about with the invention of machine guns
• Calvary is useless
• Instead they worked on developing trench warfare

WW1

• De gaulle was given rank of platoon commander and was involved in
• Heavy fighting with his men and was one if the 1st to be wounded
• He came back to find most of his comrades dead by the old
• Methods they used and was given command of a company

WW1

• De gaulle's unit gained fame for repeatedly crawling into
• No-mans-land listening in on enemy conversations
• The info they brought back was so valuable charles recived
• A citation for his bravery. He was promoted to captin
• 1916 he recived a bayonet wound and fainted from tear gas

WW1

• The germans captured him and called him Le Connétable
• It means the constable because he knew german and would often read
• The paper outloud. He wrote his 1st book here called
• L'ennemi et le vrai ennemi (the enemy and the true enemy) published in 1924
• Made 5 failed escape attempts and stayed at a high sec prison rest of the war

WW1

• He lost his right of the newspaper :(
• When the war ended he went back to his fathers house with his
• 3 brothers they all survived the war

BETWEEN WARS

• Served as an instructor for poland infantry against USSR
• Won the highest poland military medal possible
• Went back to france and said tanks and wuick maneuvers
• Better than trench warfare
• Now lieutenant colonel

WW2

• June 5 france promoted him to
• Under secretary of state for national defense and war

LEADER OF FREE FRENCH

• Strongly denounced france's armisitce with germany
• Set ab building the free frnch forces told everyone about the FFF
• Over BBC radio
• played all over france to rally the people
• British didnt like him much and on 1943 de gaulles plane had a faulty tail

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• His skillful pliot saved him and noticed it was sabotaged
• at 1st they thought german but there were no german spies in britain
• Blames the allied power
• Moved his headquarters from britain to Algeria
• The FFF loved him and saw him as Frances leader

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• The FFF and the french colonial army jointed together
• They liberated 1/3 of france then went to help out on
• The front lines.
• Although EISenhower and any smart military leader like him
• Churchill and FDR didnt like him much

POST WAR POLITICAL LIFE

• Prime minister 1944-1946
• When it came to writing the new constitution for
• The 4th republic gaulle wanted a strong president
• But lost and instead it was like 7 months per term for presdient
• It doesn't matter because the 4th republic sucked!!!

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• When he lost de gaulle left the political life and went back home
• There he wrote his war memoirs

1958 CRYSIS

• Plagued with political instability and
• failures in Indochina and inability to resolve the Algerian question.gaulle said he was at the disposal of France
• Politicians feared he would violate civil liberties he replied
• "Have I ever done that? On hthe contrary, I have re-established them when they had disappeared.
• Who honestly believes that, at age 67, I would start a career as a dictator?"

1958-1962 FOUNDING THE FIFTH REPUBLIC

• Won 78% of the votes and voted into office 1959
• Made the new franc worth 100 old franc
• Made treaties with germany
• Due to militate actions from Algeria hade 3 Assassination attempts
• Made cease fire with Algeria

NUCLEAR POWER

• on 13 February 1960 France became the world's fourth nuclear power
• when a high-powered nuclear device exploded in the Sahara some 700 mile south-south-west
• Of Algiers

NATO

• Orginally joined but left when he felt UK and USA was to
• Strong and felt america wouldnt defend france if USSR invaded
• He tried to join the russian version but left that as well

RETIREMENT

• In 28 April 1969 he retired from politics
• He refused the huge pensions of president and general
• He accepted a colonel pension though
• While in office he kept jis personal and official spending separate
• And paid for his own hair cuts and stuff like that

BIOGRAPHY

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle
• http://spartacus-educational.com/2WWdegaulle.htm