DESCOLONISATION

DESCOLONISATION

1. The process where

   • Colonialism has a legal and political end
   • Independent and sovereign states are formed

2. It spead very quickly and ended in just thirty years

   • Bye the dominance of European powers
     • The origin of a high number of Afro states and the end of colonial empires

3. Henri Labouret

4. FACTORS OF DECOLONIZATION

   • External factors
     • Two world war
       • Show the important role of colonies and the weaknesses of colonial empires
       • Destroyed superiority of their metropolis
       • No developing with submission
         • Dependent economy and no freedom to decide
       • social and ideological transformation of the colonies
         • Colonial combatans learn the concept of freedom, equality, sovereignty and independence and they claim it
     • Dominating countries promised more freedom and access to self-determination and independent for his collaboration in the war
     • International organization
       • Soviet Union favoured the descolonisation through the system of mandates of the colonies of Turkey and Germany
       • USA
         • Descolonization Committee (1961)
           • Promote descolonisation where there wasn´t
     • USA and Soviet Union
       • First to encourage descolonization
       • USA
         • Wilson
           • The Fourteen Points Programme (1918)
             • Defended self-determination and the principles of nationalities for the peace
         • It opened large markets where now American products could enter
       • Soviet Union
         • It was a means of facilitating the penetration of Marxist and expand its influence
     • Solidarity between the colonies
       • The Afro people that had independence help he people that didn´t have
       • Bandung Conference (1955)
         • Condemned European domination
         • The starting point for the descolonization of te African continent
         • It declared as a basic principles the self-determination
         • Colonialism was bad and was a cause of the problems of the Afro countries
       • Pan-Africanism, Pan-Asianism and Pan-Islamism
         • Solidarity and union against colonial rule and in favorof independence and unity of 2 continents
         • Pan-Africanism
           • K. Nkrumah
             • Organization for African Unity (OAU) 1963
               • Promove and consolidat unity, solidarity and stability in African State
               • Advanced in an extraordinary way in the unity of the continent by J.Nyerere
   • Internal factors