| A | B |
|---|
| 1814 | Napoleon out, Bourbon kings restored- Louis XVIII (1814-24) |
| Charles X (1824-30) | conservative Bourbon king, tried to re-establish divine right of kings |
| 1830 | July revolution forces Charles X to abdicate, install Louis Phillipe |
| Louis Phillipe (1830-48) | France prosperous, national railway, free education but wealthy still in charge |
| February Revolution of 1848 | overthrows Louis Phillipe and establishes Second Republic |
| Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) nephew of Napoleon | becomes president of Second Republic, then declares self Emperor of Second Empire |
| Franco-Prussian War in 1870 | France defeated, loses Alsace & Lorraine, Napoleaon III exiled |
| Third Republic begins | 1870 |
| Dreyfus Affair- 1894 | scandal which divided the French -a Jewish army captain accused of being a German spy |
| Eiffel Tower- 1889 | built for the Universal Exhibition to recall the centennial of the French Revolution |
| famous realist writers | Zola and Flaubert |
| 1895 | year of the birth of the movie theater |
| colonial expansion of France into | Africa and Indochina in early 1900's |
| the Triple Entente | agreement with Britain and Russia since France feared Germany |
| Raymond Poincaré, a native of Lorraine | president of the third Republic when Germany declared war on France (WWI) |
| assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | beginning of WWI |
| where most of the fighting of WWI took place | in France, particularly bad at Verdun |
| 1917 | US enters WWI |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles ends WWI, gives Alsace and Lorraine back to France |
| 1923 | France occupied the Ruhr Valley of Germany when Germany failed to pay war reparations |
| 1933 | Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany |
| 1940-1944 | Germans invade and occupy France (WWII) |
| Vichy Government under Marshal Pétain | ineffective French government controlled by the Germans during WW II |
| Charles de Gaulle, a general who fled to London | organized the Free France resistance movement |
| June 6, 1944 | American, British, and Canadian troops land in France at Normandy |
| August 25, 1944- allied troops enter Paris | De Gaulle becomes the president |
| October 1945 | the Fourth Republic is created with a new constitution |
| October 1958 | Charles de Gaulle returns as president of the Fifth Republic with a new constitution |
| 1962 | Algeria is given its independence from France |
| Spring of 1968 | student demonstrations widespread in France against the educational system |
| 1969 | de Gaulle resigns, George Pompidou elected president |
| 1974 | Pompidou dies and Valery Giscard d'Estaing, independent Republican Party, elected president |
| 1981 | d'Estaing has problems with energy, inflation, and loses to François Mitterand, Socialist Party |
| 1995 | Jacques Chirac elected president |
| problems of the 1990's in France | energy, nuclear testing, terrorist attacks, mad cow disease |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | May 2007- 2012 |
| François Hollande | current president of France |
