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Decolonization and "Third World" - Coggle Diagram
Decolonization and "Third World"
A WorldWide Trend
DECOLONIZATION?
The action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.
Civil war
Negotiated Independence
Incomplete decolonization
INITIAL CONFLICTS
The social movements,
unions and peasant organizations
resisted the colonial power
socio-economic reforms
were supported, directly or indirectly, by the USSR and its allies.
End of the British Empire
British African colonies
The United Kingdom agreed to transfer the command to local leaders
Rhodesian Balinese
did not accept the black majority government,became independent without British authorization and
caused a civil war.
South Africa
had established a
white minority government, with apartheid, a system of discrimination and exclusion of Asian blacks.
Commonwealth
Great Britain retained a few colonial units. Together with its former colonies, it promoted the formation of the "British Community"
Apartheid
It was a system of legislation that upheld segregationist policies against non-white citizens of South Africa.
French Colonial Countries
French Colonies in the Caribbean and those in northern, central and eastern Africa became independent through negotiated agreements.
Algeria there was a very violent conflict that shook the politics of France.
The Japanese had occupied French Indochina and promoted nationalism. The French tried to recover those colonies,in a war that lasted a decade and ended with the independence of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Third World
Second World: the Soviet Union and its communist allies, which were also industrialized, but with less economic growth.
Third World:
Poor countries
Concentrated the largest population
One of the "fronts" of the Cold War and space of ideological confrontation between communism and capitalism.
First World: developed capitalist countries that concentrated the greatest wealth of the planet
Non-allied Countries
Developed countries (1st world) that adopted socialist regimes without submitting to the Soviets.
Example: Yugoslavia, led by Josip Broz Tito
Poor countries that maintained a capitalist system, but advocated good relations with both blocks
.
Example: India ruled by Jawaharlal Nehru.
