This had a big impact on General de Gaulle, who had returned to power in France in 1958. .... Finally, in 1967, after a terrible wrangling, and only possible because a year before Général de Gaulle had decided to pull out completely from NATO's integrated military structure with flexible response adopted. read more
The May 1958 crisis (or Algiers putsch or the coup of 13 May) was a political crisis in France during the turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) which led to the return of Charles de Gaulle to political responsibilities after a twelve-year absence. read more
The attempted coup by the communist old guard in the Soviet Union in August 1991 failed because of A) massive popular resistance, rallied around Boris Yeltsin. B) Gorbachev's use of the Red Army to crush the rebels. read more