ABSTRACT
Neither events in Indochina nor developments elsewhere in the Arab world had any effective liberalizing effect on French policy in North Africa until Dien Bien Phu. In all three North African territories pressures built up to a point of revolt. Violence first broke out in Tunisia, but before this violence had been settled, revolt had erupted in Morocco. In turn, this had not been resolved before the opening of the Algerian war. It will be simplest, however, to follow the events by territory rather than chronologically.
