Faransa ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin mambobin NATO (1949). Faransa ta yi ƙoƙari ta sake mallakar ikon Indochina na Faransa amma Viet Minh ta ci shi a 1954 a yakin Dien Bien Phu. Bayan 'yan watanni kawai, Faransa ta fuskanci wani rikici na anti-colonialist a Algeria. Tsarin azabtarwa da zalunci, da kuma kisan gilla da aka yi don ci gaba da sarrafa Algeria, sa'an nan kuma an dauke shi a matsayin wani ɓangare na Faransa da kuma gida ga fiye da miliyan ɗaya na Turai, ya rushe kasar kuma kusan ya kai ga yakin basasa da yakin basasa. A shekara ta 1958, Jamhuriyar Faransa mai rauni da rashin ƙarfi ta ba da hanya ga Jamhuriyar Jamhuriyar Fifth, wanda ya haɗa da rawar tattalin arziki mai ban mamaki. A shekarar 1962, shugaban kasar Algeria Charles de Gaulle ya yi nasarar ci gaba da mulkin mallaka tare da mulkin mallaka na ƙasashen waje. Yaƙin ya ƙare tare da yarjejeniyar mulkin mallaka na ƙasashen waje da ya kai ga mutuwar mutane sama da miliyan 500,000. A karshen yakin basasa na ƙasashen waje da Faransa da Faransa sun yi nasara.
Charles de Gaulle