Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle airport, is a general, resistant, writer and statesman French. He is the head of the France of 3 June 1944 to 20 January 1946 in exercising the post of first president of the provisional Government of the French Republic, and then from 8 January 1959 to 28 April 1969 as the 18th president of the French Republic. Leader of the free French and head of the French Committee of national Liberation during the Second world War, president of the provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 à1946, president of the French Council of ministers from 1958 to 1959, the instigator of the Fifth Republic founded in 1958, it became the 18th President of the French Republic on 8 January 1959 to 28 April 1969. He was the first to occupy the supreme magistracy under the Fifth Republic. Raised in a culture of national greatness, Charles de Gaulle chose the career as an officer. Prisoner during the First world War, he served and published in the entourage of Philippe Pétain, advocating the use of armored divisions in modern warfare with political figures. In may 1940, colonel, it is placed at the head of an armoured division and conducts several counter-attacks during the battle of France ; he was promoted general of brigade on a temporary basis on may 25, 1940. He was appointed under-secretary of State for War and national Defence in the government of Reynaud, during the exodus of 1940. He rejects the armistice requested by Pétain to nazi Germany. In London, it launches, the BBC, the appeal of June 18 to the French people to resist and join the free French Forces. Sentenced to death, and declared stripped of the French nationality by decree of 08 December 1940 by the Vichy regime, he wants to embody the legitimacy of France, and to be recognized as a power by the Allies. Only controlling a few colonies, but found by the Resistance, it merges, in 1943, the free French movement in the French Committee of national Liberation, it ends by taking the direction. He led the nation to Liberation. In favour of a strong executive, he opposed the draft parliamentary party and resigned in 1946 De Gaulle returned to power during the crisis of may 13, 1958, during the Algerian war. Invested president of the Council, it approved the Fifth Republic. Elected president of the Republic, he wants a "policy of grandeur" of France. It strengthens the institutions, the money (new franc) and provides a role for third way economic to a State planner and modernizing of the industry. It gives up by steps to French Algeria, in spite of the opposition of the blackfoot, and the military, which had facilitated his return. It décolonise also black Africa, by now the French influence. De Gaulle advocated the" national independence "in rupture with the european federalism and the sharing of Yalta : it calls for a" Europe of nations "that would go" from the Atlantic to the Urals ", made the force of nuclear deterrence in france, withdrew France from the military command of NATO, pose a veto to the entry of the United Kingdom in the european Community, supports the " Québec libre ", condemns the Vietnam war and recognizes communist China.