Descolonization and Third World

Descolonization and Third World

1. 1. A WORLDWIDE TREND

   • National liberation movements» were consolidated or formed in several places. A large number of new independent states were formed, which became part of the UN. In some cases, it occurred with social mobilization and armed actions.

2. 2. 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. The social movements, unions and peasant organizations that fought for independence also called for socio-economic reforms, resisted by the heirs of colonial power. There were civil wars and dictatorships.

3. 3. END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

   • With the British African colonies, 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.

4. 4. FRENCH COLONIAL CONFLICTS

   • The French colonial empire ended and left the country a few minor dependencies. The Japanese had occupied French Indochina and promoted nationalism.

5. 5. THIRD WORLD

   • This is how the Third World was one of the «fronts» of the Cold War and a space of ideological confrontation between communism and capitalism.

6. 6. NON – ALLIED COUNTRIES

   • In the world positions arose that tried to maintain independence with respect to the two poles.

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