Faransa ta kasance daya daga cikin mambobin kungiyar NATO (1949). Faransa ta yi kokarin sake samun iko da Indochina na Faransa amma Viet Minh ta ci shi a 1954 a yakin Dien Bien Phu. Bayan watanni kadan, 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 daya 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 zaman lafiya ta ba da hanya ga Jamhuriyar Jamhuriyar Fifth, wanda ya hada da shugabancin tattalin arziki mai ban mamaki. A shekarar 1962, Charles de Gaulle ya jagoranci kungiyar NATO don ci gaba da mulkin mallaka a kasar. An kammala yarjejeniya tare da mulkin mallaka na kasashen waje a shekarar 1962 wanda ya haifar da mutuwar mutane fiye da miliyan daya. An yi la'akari da yarjejeniyar mulkin mallaka ta kasa da kasa a cikin kasar.
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