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Charles de Gaulle, pictured here in 1963, intended to turn the page on the colonial empire after Algeria's independence in 1962, and to strengthen French cooperation abroad, particularly in South America. Charles de Gaulle's trip to South America was a series of state visits made by the first president of the French Fifth Republic to South ...
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One of de Gaulle's grandsons, also named Charles de Gaulle, was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2004, his last tenure being for the far-right National Front. [188] The younger Charles de Gaulle's move to the anti-Gaullist National Front was widely condemned by other family members.
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In World War II, Charles de Gaulle and the Free French took control of the overseas colonies one-by-one and used them as a base from which they prepared to liberate France. Historian Tony Chafer argues that: "In an effort to restore its world-power status after the humiliation of defeat and occupation, France was eager to maintain its overseas ...
In fact, General de Gaulle landed at Juno Beach, where the Canadians had first come ashore. Following the war, France entered into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with Canada and the United States to deter a repeat of France's occupation by an invading power, this time the Soviet Union. France relations with (at least this part of) the ...
Charles de Gaulle had to be forced to attend, and he met a chilly reception from Roosevelt and Churchill. No French representatives were allowed to attend the military planning sessions. [14] [15] The conference called for the official recognition of a joint leadership of the Free French forces by de Gaulle and Henri Giraud.