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The collapse of the state-empire system and the consequent inevitable reinvention of the sometime core territories constituted the major elite crisis of the second part of the twentieth century; a state-empire system assembled over a couple of centuries was destroyed in a decade or so.
3 Μαρ 2011 · By Dr John Darwin. Last updated 2011-03-03. Britain may have emerged victorious from World War Two, but at what cost to its global empire? 1945: End of World War Two. The collapse of...
The following table gives the population of the British Empire and its territories, in several different time periods. The most populous territory in the empire was British India, which included what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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...
From the 16th to the 20th centuries, the British Empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1920 to over 35,500,000 km 2 (13,700,000 sq mi), the largest empire in the world. [1] In terms of population, on the eve of World War II, Britain and her colonial possessions totaled 500 million inhabitants.
22 Απρ 2016 · It is plausible that India gaining independence was the real turning point in the decline of the Empire; the British government threw everything they could at Congress to convince them to stay, but Gandhi had been leading non-cooperation movements since 1920 and after 1924 the ‘Quit India’ movement was well under way.
From mid-June 1940, following the rapid German invasions and occupations of Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the British Commonwealth was the main opponent of Germany and the Axis, until the entry into the war of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
