Chapter 11

Chapter 11: “The Fourth Republic in Cold War and Colonial Crisis.”

Read this chapter, paying special attention to the following themes:

1. Beginning of the Fourth Republic. Fragmented electorate.
2. Dimension of the damages provoked by the WWII.
3. Impact on the colonies: Vietnam, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco.
4. The Soviet Russia as a dominant presence. Rise of the Communist Party in France. 
5. De Gaulle’s measures for the post-war France (page 188). 
6. Executivism versus Parliamentarism. 
7. The Cold War begins: 1947. 
8. The Marshall Plan. And the americanization of France. 
9. Marxism among the intellectuals and in the French universities. 
10. The differences between Sartre and Camus. 
11. Jean Monnet: the counterpart of De Gaulle. 
12. Monnet’s economic plan. Pragmatic reconstruction. 
13. Requirements of the Marshall Plan: open up the French market to American products. 
14. Conflict with Germany. The production of iron and steel, 
15. Monnet’s method: to create concrete realities on the ground. 
16. The Schuman plan. The idea of European integration, and the European Defence Community. 
17. Defeat at Dien Bien Phu. 
18. European Economic Community: 1957. 
19. The Algerian Problem.
20. The Battle of Algiers, and the question about torture.