During the Algerian War, the "Pieds-Noirs" overwhelmingly supported colonial French rule in Algeria and were opposed to Algerian nationalist groups such as the "Front de libération nationale" (English: National Liberation Front) (FLN) and "Mouvement national algérien" (English: Algerian National Movement) (MNA). The roots of the conflict reside in political and economic inequalities perceived as an "alienation" from the French rule as well as a demand for a leading position for the Berber, Arab and Islamic cultures and rules existing before the French conquest. The conflict contributed to the fall of the French Fourth Republic and the exodus of European and Jewish Algerians to France.