A. Investigation PlanThe plan is to investigate the role of the Algerian War of Independence in the fall of the French Fourth Republic in 1958. I will first focus on the effects of World War II, the Alliance of Three Parties and decolonization in the Fourth Republic. Next, I will focus on the discontent caused within the government by the Algerian War, the National Liberation Front (FLN) and the French army. Finally, I will examine the crisis of May 1958 and the roles of Jacques Massu, Jacques Soustelle and Charles de Gaulle in the fall of the Fourth Republic and the creation of the Fifth. For my sources, I will evaluate A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne and Algeria and France, 1800-2000: Identity, Memory, Nostalgia by Patricia Lorcin.B. Summary of Evidence The French Fourth Republic lasted from October 13, 1946 to October 5, 1958, succeeding the Third Republic after the fall of France in World War II. After the war, Charles de Gaulle led the Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF). The Gaullist Party and Communism became the most popular parties, having worked diligently during the Resistance. (McNeill) The old political class of the Third Republic had been discredited by its complicity with the Nazis during World War II. The Three Party Alliance, Tripartism, which included the French Communist Party (PCF), the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), and the Popular Republican Movement (MRP), supported a parliamentary system, while de Gaulle supported a parliamentary system. presidential system. This difference of opinion caused a conflict within the party and he resigned in January 1946. (Bernstein) In the 1946 elections, Tripartism obtained an absolute majority in the Constituent Assembly...... middle of paper ..... n, Serge. The Republic of De Gaulle, 1958-1969. London: Cambridge Publishing Press, 1989. Print.Horne, Alistair. A savage peace war: Algeria 1954-1962. New York: New York ReviewBook, 2006. Kesselman, Mark. European politics in transition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009. Print. Lorcin, Patricia. Algeria & France, 1800-2000: Identity, Memory, Nostalgia. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Publishing Press, 2006. Print. McNeill, Tony. From the Fourth to the Fifth Republic. University of Sunderland, November 1, 1999.Web. November 30, 2010. Ross, George. Workers and communists in France: from the Popular Front to Eurocommunism. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1982. Print.Wall, EM The United States, Algeria, and the fall of the French Fourth Republic. Diplomatic History, 18: 489–511, 1994.