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DECOLONIZATION AND "THIRD WORLD" - Coggle Diagram
DECOLONIZATION AND "THIRD
WORLD"
END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Britain won the world war, but lost its colonial empire, the largest in the world. India, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore became independent.
The United Kingdom agreed to transfer the command to local leaders, but the Rhodesian Balinese did not accept the black majority government, became independent without British authorization and caused a civil war. Apartheid, system of discrimination and exclusion of Asian blacks.
A WORLDWIDE TREND
Decolonization had the greatest impact was Africa, with social mobilization and armed actions. In the Congo there was a fight led by Patrice Lumumba, the withdrawal of the Belgian colonial authorities, the intervention of his troops and the presence of UN forces.
Indonesia achieved its independence thanks to a movement led by Sukarno.
"National liberation movements" were consolidated or formed in several places, which became part of the UN.
FRENCH COLONIAL
CONFLICTS
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
French Colonies in the Caribbean and those in northern, central and eastern Africa became independent through negotiated agreements.
NON - ALLIED COUNTRIES
Developed countries (1st world) that adopted socialist regimes without submitting to the Soviets.
Countries with nationalist processes.
Poor countries that maintained a capitalist system, but advocated good relations with both blocks.
THIRD WORLD
First World to the group of developed capitalist countries that concentrated the greatest wealth of the planet.
Second World was constituted by the Soviet Union and its communist allies, which were also industrialized,less economic growth.
Third World the poor countries that mainly occupied the south of the globe and concentrated the largest population with fewer resources, Latin American nations, new Caribbean States, Africa, Asia and Oceania
INITIAL CONFLICTS
Internal ethnic and regional confrontations, economic interests of the former colonial metropolises or local groups generated conflicts in many of the nascent states. That fought for independence also called for socio economic reforms.