HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Saadi Yacef, Kwame Nkrumah, Viet Minh
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Introduction: the enormity of the transformation captured under this oblique term, decolonization, in the decades after ww2, european empires were dismantled rapidly, large numbers of men from european colonial territories participated in the war. Battle of algiers https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=7bor_u_92xe: the most powerful anti-colonial statement on lm, algeria gained independence from france in 1962, based on the memoirs of the leaders of the national liberation front, saadi yacef, used all non-actors. Road to independence: factors that contributed to independence and the wars of independence both world wars, indigenous nationalist movements, and the force of violence. World war i: wwi did not end imperialism, but expanded it, the collapse of the ottoman empire meant that territories in the middle east and. Gandhi"s independence movement in india: techniques that would later become important emerged in the period after wwi. World war ii: decolonization really took affect after wwii, a number of ways in which wwii related to this change in colonization.
