Charles de gaulle brief biography of martin
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A. International Legal Order in the 1950s and 1960s
4For European states, the end of the Second World War had fundamentally changed the arena. Whereas europeisk powers could delineate their major international relations in ‘classic’ europeisk diplomatic schemes within the border of the continent or their overseas acquisitions, the international system had decisively developed into a global one. Europe was but one of the international theatres for global powers. Moreover, the USSR and the United States, who emerged as the strongest forces after the Second World War, had strategic interests on the continent, but were not part of Western europe. Decision centres had moved away from Paris, London, Vienna or Berlin to Washington and Moscow. Consequently, agreements on armament reductions or nuclear non-proliferation were decided bygd the two superpowers, and were a sign that the other sovereign nations were out of the game. France1 or China2, permanent members of the 1945 big power club
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“I am here to save the honor of France”: Charles de Gaulle and the American Future
For a time, a brief and momentous time, he was France.
It is one of history’s strangest moments. France besieged; France defeated; France capitulated; and then, four years later, France reborn.
France was reborn through a lone, tall, austere, strange figure named Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle loved his nation, having been raised in a Catholic home devoted to church and country. In the First World War, he fought valiantly, and when captured by the Germans escaped no less than five times from prison camps. Following the war, he fashioned himself as a military strategist, (unsuccessfully) pushing against the defensive posture of the French military intelligentsia. He served under Philippe Pétain, one of France’s justly famous generals, and saw his career advance because of the old warrior’s patronage.
But then came Hitlerism and an aggrieved Germany once more. Though France had major martial resources
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Charles de Gaulle
President of France from 1959 to 1969
"De Gaulle" redirects here. For the film, see De Gaulle (film). For other uses, see Charles de Gaulle (disambiguation).
In this article, the surname is De Gaulle, not Gaulle.
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle[a][b] (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the Algerian War, he came out of retirement when appointed Prime Minister by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969.
Born in Lille, he was a decorated officer of the First World War, wounded several times and taken prisone