Brief History of Morocco
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A Brief History of Morocco in the Modern Period with reference to the rise of nationalism and feminism
| 1909-13 | War of resistance against Spanish colonialism |
| March 30, 1912 | Treaty of Fez establishing the French protectorate |
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"France Controls Morocco," Special Cable to The New York Times. March 31, 1912. |
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| 1912-36 | Guerilla warfare against the French in the Middle Atlas |
| 1920-26 | The Rif War, against Spanish and then French colonialism |
| Nov. 18, 1927 | Mohamed Ben Youssouf named Sultan, at the age of seventeen |
| 1930 | Moroccan independence movement |
| 1934 | French general Guillaume completes “pacification” of the south of Morocco |
| 1937 | French repression of nationalist movement, putting its leaders in prison or sending them into exile |
| 1936-39 | Palestinian uprising; Spanish civil war |
| 1939-45 | World War II |
| 1940-44 | Vichy France, after French army defeated by the Germans |
| 1942 | Year of the American war/Year of the ration coupon. Americans landed in North Africa (Operation Torch). It was also a year of famine, in which ration coupons were issued for essential supplies |
| Jan. 22, 1943 | US President Franklin D. Roosevelt assures Moroccan king Mohamed V of his support for Moroccan independence |
| 1943 | Princess Lalla Aicha gets her primary school certificate |
| Jan. 11, 1944 | Independence Manifesto. Nationalists in Fez make first demand for outright independence from France, and form the Istiqlal (Independence) Party. |
| 1947 | Demonstrations in Casablanca against the French bloodily suppressed. Preparation of the armed resistance begins in Casablanca |
| Apr 11, 1947 | Mohamed V gives a speech in Tangier breaking with the French. Princess Lalla Aicha gives a speech calling for the emancipation of women. |
| 1949 | Opening of a women’s branch of the Qaraouine University. |
| 1950 | French arrest or exile Istiqlal party members |
| Aug. 20, 1953 | French exile King Mohamed V. |
| Nov. 1, 1954 | Armed liberation war begins in Algeria |
| Aug 20, 1955 | Uprisings in Oued Zem, crushed brutally by General Duval and his troops |
| Oct. 2, 1955 | First attacks by Moroccan liberation army on three French garrisons on the Moroccan-Algerian border |
| Nov. 6, 1955 | Mohamed V signs La Celle-St. Cloud agreement with French foreign minister Antoine Pinay to put Mohamed V back on the throne and leading to Moroccan independence |
| Nov. 16, 1955 | Return of King Mohamed V |
| March 2, 1956 | Moroccan Independence |
| 1957-59 | Muodouana family law code issued, in stages |
| 1993 | Reform of the moudouana. The first two women elected to the Moroccan parliament. |
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