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Noun Check: Algerian War Flashcards

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Dey

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Ruling official of the Ottoman Empire in Northern Africa

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Jihad

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A fight against the enemies of Islam

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Assimilation

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Taking in and fully understanding information / ideas

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Self-determination

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The process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government

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White supremacy

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The belief that Europeans /white people are superior to other races

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Guerrilla war

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An independent unit that makes surprise raids behind enemy lines: not an established army

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Collective punishment

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Harassment taken against a group in retaliation for an act committed by an individual

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Algerian Algeria (algérie algerienne )

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Term used for the self-determining country, upset French & piers noirs when this idea was referenced by Charles de Gaulle

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French Algeria (algérie francaise)

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Algeria that is ruled by French government

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“Regrouped” Algerian villages

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Meant to break the connections between the population and the ALN. Bad conditions and high mortality

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haik

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A white outer wrap worn by people from North Africa

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“Revolutionary schools”

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FLN schools that taught children how to bomb, read, write (Arabic)

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“The suitcase or the coffin”

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Documentary about the piers noirs and what happened to them, according to them & their children

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Scorched earth policy

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Military tactic to destroy everything to disable the enemy (ex: livestock, crops,buildings)

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Algerian socialism

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Workers self-managed, land redistribution

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Berbers

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Ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa

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Barbary pirates

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Muslim pirates, mainly Berbers, operated off the Barbary coast-captured slaves for the slave trade+ state French goods

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Pied noirs

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A white settler born in Africa: upper class society in Algeria, all European

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Abd-al Qadir

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Declared a jihad against the French

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Mesalli hadj

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Wanted full independence, seen as a socialist/communist, nationalist, many of his ideas
Influenced Algerian socialism

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Ferhat Abbas

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Equality for Muslim Algerians, consistent with “assimilation”, agricultural reform, abolition for special privileges for pieds noir

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Abdul-hamid Ben badis

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Conservative, return to Islam, scholar

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Leon Blum

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One of the creators of the violette plan, French prime minister in 1963

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Charles de Gaulle

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The president that ended the war, allowed Algeria to self-govern, progressive

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George catroux

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Governor General of Algeria, judge in the military tribunal that tried the generals involved in Algeria

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FDR

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Progressive American president, leader of US in WWI, supported democracy

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Winston Churchill

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Prime minister of Britain during WWI,part of allies

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Ahmed Ben Bella

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Principal leader in Algerian war, president post-war, assumed a lot of unchecked power, military coup overthrew him

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Kateb yacine

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Algerian / Berber poet that wrote in support of the independence movement.

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Pierre Mendes France

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French prime minister for 8 months, focused on ending the Indochina war.

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Harkis

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Algerian that sided with the French

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Saadi yacef

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Military leader of the FLN-betrayed them later and offered the location of Ali la Pointe in exchange for his life

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Maurice audin

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Mathematician that died via torture: Friend of Alleg,his death is mentioned in the question

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General salan

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One of the 4 generals that attempted to take over French control in Algeria (1961)

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Frantz fanon

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Author of anti-colonial book & psychiatrist that treated the tortured Algerians

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Jean-paul sartre

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Philosopher that believed we are condemned to each other, but Algeria could prevail

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Albert Camus

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Supported Arab ideals for equal rights, but couldn’t imagine them as completely free

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Francis Jeanson

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FLN leader that was also a reporter for Alger republican

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Maurice papon

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Paris police head, prompted the Paris massacre of 1961 against 30K FLN protesters

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Simone de Beauvoir

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Feminist, wrote an article against the Algerian torture (especially sexual torture)

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Hourari boumediène,

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Coup leader against Ben Bella, military officer & politician

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Manifesto of the Algerian people (manifeste du peuple Algerien)

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1943, establishes the right for Algerian people to self-govern

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Fanon’s The wretched of the Earth

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Supports Algerian independence, the book discusses the dehumanization of colonization

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Fanon’s “ A dying colonialism”

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A detailed book on how Algerians abandoned their “primitive” practices to win against their colonizers

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