The Algerian War was started by members of the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) with the Toussaint Rouge attacks on 1 November 1954 . Conflicts proliferated in France , including the May 1958 Algerian crisis that led to the fall of the Fourth Republic . French forces used brutal means of attempting to suppress Algerian nationalists , alienating support in metropolitan France and discrediting French prestige abroad
Toussaint Rouge
Toussaint Rouge
1962 Algerian independence referendum