PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Malayan Communist Party, Warsaw Pact, Communist Party Of China
9 Aug 2020
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Many of british, dutch and french colonies in asia occupied by japan during wwii: raised a question of whether the indigenous population would allow the colonial powers to reclaim their power. British problems in india canada and south africa already acting autonomously ireland declaring neutrality. The atlantic charter roosevelt and churchill supporting democracy, self-determination and liberalization of international trade. In south-east asia, independence was reached easily why that was not the case for african colonies. War was used to faster the process of decolonialization. Asia in turmoil: nationalism, revolution and the rise of the cold war, 1945-53. After the wwii, a number of indigenous population in south-east asia have freed themselves from the european colonial presence and number of new independent states emerged. Chinese communist party emerged as a regional great power people"s republic of china in 1949 united and centralized communist china closed to soviet union us"s policy of containment.
