The decolonizing process.

The decolonizing process.

1. the term decolonization is used, specifically, to refer to the Process that took place in the twentieth century and affected the continents of Asia and Africa

   • but it was from 1945 when the decolonization occurred in an irrepressible way, following an east-west direction: it began in Asia Eastern and, after reaching the Arab world, ended up in black Africa.
     • Period between wars (1919-1945). The former Muslim territories of the Ottoman Empire, administered as mandates under French-British tutelage, reached their independence
     • Period of 1945-1955. The colonies of east and South Asia were proclaimed Independent:
     • Period of 1955-1975. North Africa and Black Africa were decolonized.

2. The decolonizing process did not occur in the same way in all the territories

3. several modalities or ways of decolonization can be appreciated

   • The United Kingdom favoured the peaceful way
     • renounced political sovereignty in order to safeguard trade and monetary ties with its former colonies, which were integrated as members of the Commonwealth
   • The revolutionary route was the violence and the armed confrontation between the colony and the metropolis to make way for the decolonizing process.
     • The Netherlands and Portugal personified this route in Indonesia, Angola or Mozambique.
     • France followed a mixed model, it opposed the independence of Indo-China and Algeria, which provoked dramatic wars in these territories