HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quit India Movement, Bandung Conference, Atlantic Charter

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Two big waves of decolonization, after the napoleonic wars (1801-1815), and after world war ii (1939- Best e(cid:373)pi(cid:396)es a(cid:396)e those that ha(cid:448)e a (cid:858)(cid:448)el(cid:448)et glo(cid:448)e(cid:859), when the colonized accepted the legitimacy of their rulers, that they need them to survive. Driven by economic benefits, colonized area subjugated to a european industrial economy, not allowed to develop, exploited for their resources, a way for a colonising power to feel good about themselves, show other countries how good they were. British defeat at singapore, shows the other colonies that the british could be beat and beaten badly, the(cid:396)e(cid:859)s (cid:374)o su(cid:272)h thi(cid:374)g as a supe(cid:396)io(cid:396) (cid:449)hite (cid:396)a(cid:272)e, framework of colonization had been shaken by singapore. Japan gains in defeat what it tried to gain in war, plants the seeds of decolonization. Colonies want decolonization but europeans think they need the colonies to rebuild europe, this starts a battle between the two sides.

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