The National Liberation Front proceeded to use suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks in order to gain their solitary status of independence. This led to the full-scale rebellion in 1954. On November 1st, 1954, the National Liberation Front launched a counter-attack, or revolt against the …show more content…
After eight very long years of fighting, the French finally gave up and handed independence over to the Algerians. Afterwards, the Algerians became a client state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Ahmed Ben Bella was elected president of Algeria, but is gotten rid of and deposed in a coup d'etat, or a sudden and violent surge of power from a government, after trying to change and overstep bounds on Socialist ideas.
Algerians gaining independence as a country helped them in great ways. One of those was that they didn’t have a choice in who would be leading the country, but just a king. As they became a free country, they adopted democracy, which gave the people a choice in who would be in power, the sole meaning of