THE DECOLONIZATION OF THE WORLD !!!
BY C.J.COLEHOUR----- WHAP 4TH PERIOD
THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT....
AFRICA
1960 TROUGH THE 1980'S, A TIMEFRAME DURING WHICH AFRICA GAINED IT'S INDEPENDENCE FROM EUROPE. THE AFRICAN SEPERATION FROM EUROPE WAS SPURRED ON, BY SOLDIERS WHO HAD FOUGHT IN BOTH WORLD WARS. LEARNING OF INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE, NORTHERN AFRICAN NATIONS FELT EMPOWERED TO DO THE SAME.
IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, THINGS WERE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT. WITH LITTLE UNITY AMONG THE NATIONS AN FEW SKILLED WORKERS, IT WAS A STRUGGLE TO BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT AND PROSPEROUS.
THE RWANDAN ETHNIC GENOCIDE: THE EUROPEAN COLONIZERS LEFT THE TUTSI IN CHARGE OF THE HUTU, WHICH LED TO THE MURDER OF MORE THAN 800,000 TUTSI, AFTER THE HUTU REVOLTED AGAINST THIS INJUSTICE.
THE MIDDLE EAST....
1910'S THROUGH THE 1940'S, THE MIDDLE EAST WAS CONTROLLED BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, AFTER WHICH EUROPEAN POWERS TOOK CONTROL UNTIL THE END OF WWII .
ISREAL: WAS CREATED FROM THE BALFOUR DECLARATION, STATING THAT THERE SHOULD BE A HOME FOR JEWS IN PALESTINE. ISREAL HAS BEEN SPLIT IN HALF WITH A LOT OF BLOOD SHED BETWEEN JEWS AND PALESTINIANS, THIS FEUD STILL CONTINUES TODAY.
IRAN: IN THE 1960'S IRAN'S REFORM MINDED AND PRO-WESTERN RULER TRIED TO IMPLEMENT WESTERN CULTURE, WHICH IN TURN ANGERED THE MUSLIM TRADITIONALISTS. THIS LED TO A REVOLUTION THAT OUSTED IRAN'S RULER AND A ULTRA CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT TOOK OVER AND TO THIS DAY STILL THREATENS GLOBAL PEACE.