Since the early 1500s, the Ottoman Empire has controlled parts of Algeria. In 1830, France invaded the country. It took a long time and a lot of blood to take over Algeria.
Unlike other French colonies, Algeria was treated as it was part of France.
The French government took tribal lands from the people of Algeria and encouraged Europeans to move there. In some cities, like Algiers, Europeans even made up most of the population.
The local Muslims were angry that France was there in the middle of the twentieth century and started the "Red (bloody) All Saints' Day" rebellion. On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front (FLN) carried out 70 coordinated attacks on police and military sites around Algeria. All Saints' Day, a Christian holiday, was when this happened. The Algerian War started with these raids. "Red (bloody) All Saints' Day" was the name given to what happened on November 1, 1954.
France won the war and gained back control of the country, but the brutality of the revolution's repression made the Algerians even angrier and drove many people in France and throughout the globe to quit supporting France's leadership of Algeria. The fundamental reason Algeria became independent on July 5, 1962, was because of this change in thinking.
