History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Persian Gulf, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru
19 Aug 2016
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They did not have the military strength to keep control over their colonies: britain as the one that more liberally gave up their power b. i. They easily gave up india: the dutch tried to hold on to indonesia but they lost that war, france tried to hold on to its colonies the longest d. i. While the ussr had an empire they were against imperialism in other nations. They were not viewed as civilized by the people that were colonizing the nation: creating a national language since tribes had different languages from one another b. i. They idea to create solidarity often was not successful and bloody civil wars broke out. In some places one legacy of colonialism was the settlement of non-indigenous peoples in colonies. Lecture: this often resulted in conflicts a. i. Examples include south africa, algeria, israel/palestine, burma, malaya, and east africa: europeans going to the colonized nation to live there b. i.
