module 6

What international circumstances and social changes contributed to the end of colonial empires?

Europe began to lose power to those other superpowers in the world those empire included the rising super power of the US and the Soviet Union. They saw the european colonial empires as old and they saw themselves as superior. By the early twentieth century in Asia and the mid-twentieth century in Africa a second or third generation of Western-educated elite male had arisen throughout the colonial world. The men were very aware of the differences in values and practices in the european culturers compared to the other parts of the world. people began to realize thqt colonial rule was changing that how it had been in the past. no longer viewed colonial rule as a vehicle for their peoples' progress as their fathers had, and increasingly insisted on independence now. People were now looking for independence. 

 What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration?

 The end of Europe's African and Asian empires was associated with the mobilization of the masses around NationalismNever before had the end of empire been so closely associated with the mobilization of entire societies around a nationalist ideology   there werent earlier cases of imperial decline generated so many new nation-states, each claiming an equal place in a world of nation-states.
What conflicts and differences divided India’s nationalist movement?

  some militant Hindus preached hatred of Muslims. Some saw efforts to improve the position of women or untouchables as a distraction from the chief task of gaining independence from Britain. Gandhi opposed industrialization, but his chief lieutenant, Jawaharlal Nehru, supported it. Not all nationalists accepted Gandhi's nonviolence or his inclusive definition of India. there was disagreement about whether to participate in British-sponsored legislative bodies without complete independence.

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  1. Ana’s BlogApril 16, 2020 at 12:19 AM

    Great blog post! I thought all the information you put was great and thought out well.

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  2. Ruth HernandezMay 4, 2020 at 12:23 AM

    Good analysis of your questions. One thing I learned from this chapter was that South Africa had been independent of great Britain since 1910, but African rule was delayed because independence had been granted to a government controlled entirely by a white settler minority which was 20% of the populations. The black African majority had no political say in the state. The African people's struggles were internal instead of external. This sucked and shows the way racism has affected Africans throughout history.

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