French Presidents: 1958-1981 (TRIH ep 178, part 1)
1958 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook survey the presidents of France’s Fifth Republic, using Charles de Gaulle as the foundational figure whose wartime prestige and constitutional reforms shaped the office. They discuss de Gaulle’s personality, Gaullist exceptionalism, and his role in the creation of a strong executive during the 1958 crisis linked to the Algerian War.
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Around 1958
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)