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1958: France
A bloodless revolution which brought General Charles de Gaulle to power, put an end to the Fourth Republic, and instituted a Fifth Republic was the climactic event of 1958 in France. Unable to cope with the Algerian war, the source of most of France's financial, political, and moral problems, the...
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