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Decolonisation in South East and South Asia, 1945-1948. The defeat of the British, Indian and Australian armies in Malaya (Malaysia) and Singapore by the Imperial Japanese Army in February 1942 foreshadowed the eventual end of the British Empire in the region.
Malaya became an independent democracy on 31 August 1957. In the Middle East, Britain hurriedly abandoned Palestine in 1948. Ghana became Britain's first African colony to reach independence in 1957. By 1967 more than 20 British territories were independent. Decolonisation was a complex process.
The British Empire increased the wealth and prestige of Britain from 1600. When the colonies became a drain on British resources, Britain grew weary of the struggle to maintain empire and...
World War Two became the death knell for the British Empire, welcoming a period of rapid and often rushed decolonisation. Burma (now Myanmar) Aung San’s Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League fought against the British in World War Two, but then switched sides before the end of the war.
The sudden demise of arguably the world's greatest empire in the years following the Second World War was a momentous event in global history. After nearly four centuries of colonial activity, the British relinquished their empire in a little more than twenty years. In this comprehensive new survey, David McIntyre narrates the sequence of ...
3 Μαρ 2011 · 1945: End of World War Two. The collapse of British imperial power - all but complete by the mid-1960s - can be traced directly to the impact of World War Two. The catastrophic British defeats...
It is impossible to understand either the ‘British end’ of the British Empire or the ways in which the British state and British institutions reconfigured their activities for a ‘postcolonial’ era without taking account of this drawn-out nature of British decolonization.
