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The French Military presences had lasting effects throughout the region. The President of France at the time said. The president of France at the time of colonialism, President Charles de Gaulle, w wanted the region to move from French occupation to neocolonialist dependence seamlessly. The French were able to decolonize the region while maintaining stability.

With the end of World War II, Nationalists groups were rising to prominence. WWII did not cause this shift but different anti-colonial propaganda influenced the different Nationalist groups to rise up. After the uprisings that spiked after WWII, France took upon the role and became known as the "gendarme," meaning that France was keeping communist threats away from Africa.

After the independence of Morocco and Tunisia, the relations between them and the colonizer, France were not tense. Despite their independence, France held massive influence in the region. French was still a dominant language in both of the countries and students were being taught in both French and their native tongue and France heavily funded the schooling systems in Tunisia. France continued to export goods into the North of Africa, specifically those two countries. The french government invested nearly $25,000,000 a year in Tunisia.

Tunisia and France had a difficult altercation when Bourguiba pressured France to give Tunisia to Africa and relinquish control over a naval base. Tunisians took this as a seeing that Neocolonialism would be inevitable for the country and many wanted full sovereignty, although realizing that it would be difficult with such a dependency on France for education and exports.

In May of 1945, Algerian's fight for independence was the bloodiest with 103 European deaths. This led to a distrust between the two parties, Europeans and Algerians. The relationship between France and Algeria was different than that of Tunisia and Morocco. The Algeria had to gain its independence through an eight year war. Algeria was also colonized by the french earlier than the neighboring states, leading Algeria to be more dependent on France. There was a large Jewish Population of Algeria was naturalized into being French Citizens and Muslims were treated as second class citizens under French Rule. This caused the emigration of Jewish People into Europe because they disassociated from the Algerian Nationalist Party. After France and Algeria signed the Evian records, Algeria became independent. An Independent Algeria caused 750,000 French citizens to leave Algeria for their home country after the separation of the two countries.