The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria.

Evidence

But, not for the first time, the O.A.S. was proved to be defeating its own ends; principally because of the atmosphere of terror created by the O.A.S., and despite its threats of “sanctions”, since the beginning of April no less than one hundred thousand pieds noirs had already left the country — or one in ten of the total European population. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The O.A.S. aimed to make Algeria ungovernable rather than to win it; The Delphine Renard bombing broke French public tolerance and doomed the O.A.S.; OAS terror backfired by accelerating rather than wrecking the peace negotiations. (+9 more)

Related

• OAS terror backfired by accelerating rather than wrecking the peace negotiations. (similarity 0.92)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.91)
• O.A.S. terrorism accelerated the very European exodus it aimed to prevent (similarity 0.90)
• OAS believed attacking French Communists would trap de Gaulle politically, but miscalculated. (similarity 0.84)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.83)
• The O.A.S. continued assassinating de Gaulle long after Algeria fell. (similarity 0.83)
• OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend (similarity 0.81)
• Defeated OAS destroyed Algeria’s French-built infrastructure and institutions (similarity 0.81)
• OAS metropole terror reached nearly into the French foreign ministry and Eiffel Tower. (similarity 0.81)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.80)
• Metropolitan terrorism alienated the French Left that supported Algerian independence (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.80)
• France deliberately sacrificed its barbouze operatives to distract the O.A.S. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• O.A.S. terrorism accelerated the very European exodus it aimed to prevent #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614
• Defeated OAS destroyed Algeria’s French-built infrastructure and institutions #expands (0.50)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad #qualifies (0.35)
• Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. #responds-to (0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1585