GPRF yakaisa hwaro hwehurongwa hutsva hwebumbiro remitemo hwakaguma muRepublic yechina, iyo yakaona kukura kunoshamisa kwehupfumi ("les Trente Glorieuses"). France yaiva imwe yenhengo dzakatanga NATO (1949). France yakaedza kudzorazve French Indochina asi yakakundwa neViet Minh muna 1954 paHondo yeDien Bien Phu. Mwedzi mishomanene gare gare, France yakatarisana nerimwe rwisano rinorwisana nekoloni muAlgeria
. Kutambudza uye kudzvinyirira kwakarongwa, pamwe chete nokuuraya kusina kutongwa kwakaitwa kuti kuchengetedze kudzora kweAlgeria, panguva iyoyo yaibatwa sechikamu chakakosha cheFrance uye musha wevanopfuura mamirioni mumwe vagari vemuEurope, kwakaparadza nyika uye kwakapotsa kwakatungamirira kukudhonzwa kwehurumende nehondo yevagari vemo.