HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pied-Noir, French Fourth Republic, Ahmed Ben Bella
19 Apr 2016
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Key turning point to decolonization; fought with material and men from europe"s overseas colonies. 200 000 british colonial subjects died; b drew heavily on indian resources, leading to food shortages. The more sacrifice, the more resentment, and open resistance to colonial rule. Independent empire: at this point b grants greater rights to their white colonies (aus, ca) Dependent empire; civil disobedience claims in india; France hoped empire would help with post-war reconstruction, but increasingly the colonies were taking part in independence movements. Loss of european prestige: wwii undermines european powers military power (france crushed by germany; Eu powers paid little attention to the wishes of their subjects/impact of war on local people; britain forced. Rising powers from the war, us/ussr, both anti- colonial. At the same time, nationalism and marxism were embraced in the non-european nations. B, f, belgium, netherlands, portugal still colonial powers post-wwii. Wanted to hold onto territories for resources after the war.
