REVOLT

Charles de Gaulle

• In 1946, De Gaulle helped establish a new government called the Fourth Republic

Rome Treaty

• In 1957, France, West Germany, the Benelux countries, and Italy signed the Rome Treaty

1960

• In 1960, France exploded its first nuclear bomb

EEC

• The Rome Treaty created the European Economic Community also known as the Common Market

Civil Rights Act

• The civil rights movement had its beginnings in 1954, when the U.S. supreme court ruled that the practice of racial segregation in public schools was illegal.

Martin Luther King Jr.

• Leader of a growing movement for racial equality, led a march on Washington D.C, to dramatize the African American desire for equality

STUDENT REVOLT

• Students in american universities in the mid- to late 1960s launched an anti war protest movement.

Simone de Beauvoir

• She was very important to the emerge of the postwar women's liberation movement in 1949