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In the 1950s, the French established secret commando groups based on loyal montagnard ethnic minorities referred as " partisans " or " maquisards ", called the Groupement de Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés ( Composite Airborne Commando Group or GCMA ), later renamed Groupement Mixte d ' Intervention ( GMI, or Mixed Intervention Group ), directed by the SDECE counter-intelligence service.
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Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.
A number of French comedians were also able to find an English speaking audience in the 1950s, including Fernandel and Jacques Tati.
The French school of ethnology was particularly significant for the development of the discipline since the early 1950s with Marcel Griaule, Germaine Dieterlen, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jean Rouch.
The French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean Luc Godard and François Truffaut and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and John Cassavetes also pushed the limits of editing technique during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s.
In the 1950s, French economist François Simiand proposed naming the ascendant period of the cycle " Phase A " and the downward period " Phase B ".
However, a rudimentary network begun under French colonial rule and continued from the 1950s has provided an important means of increased intervillage communication, movement of market goods, and a focus for new settlements.
* Automobiles Marathon, a French manufacturer of Panhard powered light sports cars in the 1950s
Structuralism was a broad philosophical movement that developed particularly in France in the 1950s, partly in response to French Existentialism, but is considered by many to be an exponent of High-Modernism, though its categorization as either a Modernist or Postmodernist trend is contested.
Syria came under French Mandate in 1941, gaining full emaining in a state of political instability during the 1950s and 1960s.
* September 28 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress, sex symbol of the 1950s and 60's, and animal rights activist
The first system to become operational and to see combat was the French Nord SS. 10 during the early 1950s.
The discovery of this tendency is attributed to Maurice Duverger, a French sociologist who observed the effect and recorded it in several papers published in the 1950s and 1960s.
This emerged from a number of different areas: in sociology during the 1950s ; from the theories of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan ; and in the work of French psychoanalysts like Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, and American feminists such as Judith Butler.
Bogdanovich was influenced by the French critics of the 1950s who wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma, especially critic-turned-director François Truffaut.
In the early 1950s he had been a member of the French Communist Party, although never adopted an orthodox Marxist viewpoint and left the party after three years, disgusted by the prejudice towards Jews and homosexuals within its ranks.
) During the 1950s, Le Pen took a close interest in the Algerian war ( 1954 – 62 ) and the French defense budget.
As the French car industry switched from making large powerful cars to small utilitarian ones, French sports cars of the 1950s and early 1960s tended to be small-capacity and highly aerodynamic ( often based on Panhard or Renault components ), aimed at winning the " Index of Performance " at Le Mans and Reims and triumphing in handicap races.
The observed differences between the Tutsis and the Hutus are about the same as those evident between the different French social classes in the 1950s.
This Promenade was created from the sea during the 1950s and it is one of the best in Italy, at the level ( and imitation ) of those in the French Riviera.
Khánh cited their service in the Vietnamese National Army in the early 1950s, under the French colonial administration as evidence, although he did as well.
The greatest and most enduring success however was mainly for some series started in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960 ( including Lucky Luke, The Smurfs, and Asterix ), and the even older Tintin, while many more recent series have not made a significant commercial impact outside the French and Dutch speaking countries, despite the critical acclaim for authors like Moebius.
Resnais is often linked with the group of French filmmakers who made their breakthrough as the New Wave or nouvelle vague in the late 1950s, but by then he had already established a significant reputation through his ten years of work on documentary short films.
In the late 1950s the Scopitone, a visual jukebox, was invented in France and short films were produced by many French artists, such as Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, Jacques Brel, and Jacques Dutronc to accompany their songs.
The Canadian dollar ( as a regional reserve currency for banking ) has been an important part of the British, French and Dutch Caribbean state's economies and finance systems since the 1950s.
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The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.
It was in this way that accomplished noir actress Ida Lupino established herself as the sole female director in Hollywood during the late 1940s and much of the 1950s.
In the meantime, almost all Dutch radio broadcasting organizations ( followed by television broadcasters in the 1950s ) established their headquarters in Hilversum and provided a source of continuing economic growth.
However in terms of modern competition, it was during the 1950s that a Japanese karateka named Tatsuo Yamada first established an outline of a new sport that combined karate and muay thai.
In the 1950s Baba established two centers outside of India: the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in the United States and Avatar's Abode near Brisbane, Australia.
Communications in China were established rapidly in the early 1950s.
By the late 1950s, when other emerging nations across the African Continent were demanding independence, a small group of São Toméans had formed the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP ), which eventually established its base in nearby Gabon.
On the recommendation of Don Siegel, Peckinpah established himself during the late 1950s as a scriptwriter of Western series of the era, selling scripts to Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Rifleman, Broken Arrow, Klondike, and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
*" Traditional taekwondo " typically refers to the martial art as it was established in the 1950s and 1960s in the South Korean military, and in various civilian organisations, including schools and universities.
Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama, was established as a free trade zone in the 1950s and became the country's second city.
Unlike the political movement of the 1950s that squarely targeted intellectuals, the new movement was focused on established party cadres.
The 1980s in particular were ruled in a repressive manner with many of the freedoms established in the 1950s suspended or severely curtailed.
Through the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as a respected actor in theatre and film, and began to make his presence felt on television, with a semi-regular role as Det-Insp Bamber in the police series Z-Cars, as well as guest roles in series as diverse as Steptoe and Son (" The Lead Man Cometh ", 1964 ; " The Desperate Hours ", 1972 ) and The Avengers episode " Dressed to Kill " ( 1963 ).
After a number of discoveries were made in the 1950s and 1960s in radio astronomy, astronomers realized the information available outside of the visible wavelength range, and modern infrared astronomy was established.
The success of radio astronomy during the 1950s and 1960s, combined with the improvement of infrared detector technology, prompted more astronomers to take notice, and infrared astronomy became well established as a subfield of astronomy.
By the 1950s, Pfizer was established in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Iran, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
The first gay village was established in Berlin in the 1920s and in Amsterdam in the 1950s.
Jurado had already established herself as an actress in Mexico in the 1940s when she came to Hollywood, becoming a regular in Western films of the 1950s and 1960s.
In the 1950s and 1960s some manufacturing concerns established plants in Cayey taking advantage of tax incentives offered by " Operation Bootstrap ", Puerto Rico's industrialization program.
Having been established since the early 1950s it is only over the last several years that they have finally enjoyed a sustained period of success.
Another Coimisiún na Gaeltachta was established in the early 1950s, and it concluded that the Gaeltacht boundaries were ill-defined and recommended that the admittance of an area should be based solely on the strength of the language in the area.
This airport was established at the former Army airbase at Napier Field in 1965, after a push to move the airport was started in the early 1950s by then-Mayor Richmond C. McClintock.
Through the 1950s and 1960s, he established an art publishing house, and he wrote books on Georges Braque, Max Beckmann, Otto Mueller and Pablo Picasso.
During the 1950s, the United States Air Force established a base and radar station at Fort Yukon ; the town was officially incorporated in 1959.
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