Algerian History and Politics

Independence and the Modern State

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  1. Who became the first president of independent Algeria in 1963?
  2. Who replaced Ben Bella in a bloodless coup in 1965?
  3. Which measure of February 1971 gave the state control of oil and gas production?
  4. What is the name of Algeria's state hydrocarbons company created in 1963?
  5. In 1969 Algeria joined which organisation of oil producers?
  6. Which text of 1989 ended the single-party rule of the FLN?
  7. What happened in October 1988 in Algiers and other cities?
  8. Which upper chamber of parliament was created by the 1996 constitutional revision?
  9. What is the lower house of the Algerian parliament called?
  10. In which year did Tamazight become an official language alongside Arabic?
  11. What name is usually given to the internal conflict of the 1990s?
  12. Which text, voted by referendum in September 2005, offered amnesty and compensation after the 1990s conflict?
  13. Which national holiday is held on 1 November each year?
  14. Which song, with words by Moufdi Zakaria, is the national anthem of Algeria?
  15. What does the flag of Algeria show?
  16. Which monument above Algiers honours those who died in the war of independence?
  17. Where was the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic proclaimed in September 1958?
  18. Which veteran nationalist presided over the first National Constituent Assembly in 1962?
  19. Which historic FLN chief was assassinated in 1992 while serving as head of state?
  20. In which year was Algeria's first constitution approved by referendum?
  21. Which Algerian woman, sentenced to death in 1957 for bomb attacks, became a symbol of the struggle?
  22. Which short border war of 1963 opposed Algeria and Morocco?
  23. In 1956 geologists found which field, now Algeria's largest for crude oil?
  24. Which party led the struggle for independence and was Algeria's only legal party until 1989?
  25. Roughly how long did the Algerian war of independence last?

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