Causes of Decolonization

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Course Outline

  1. Colonization and National Consciousness
  2. Nationalism and Its Leading Groups
  3. Third World and Political Currents
  4. War and Colonial Empire Crisis
  5. Anticolonial Policies of the Superpowers
  6. The United Nations and Decolonization

Key Dates

  1. 14 August 1941the Atlantic Charter proclaimed the right of peoples to self-determination.
  2. 1945Article 1 of the UN Charter proclaimed the equal rights of peoples to self-determination.
  3. 1960the UN General Assembly's anticolonial declaration called for immediate independence for territories still under colonial rule.

1. Colonization and National Consciousness

Essential Points

  • Colonization disrupted economies and traditional societies, generated resentment toward settlers, and produced new elites, thereby encouraging national consciousness.

Memory Hook

Economic and social disruption → resentment and new elites → national consciousness

2. Nationalism and Its Leading Groups

  • Examples of unions that worked toward ending colonial rule were:
    • the CGT
    • the UGTAN
    • the FO
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1. How did colonization contribute to the growth of national consciousness?

2. A colonized society experiences economic disruption, growing resentment toward settlers, and the rise of new elites. What broader development could these changes encourage?

3. What political role did trade unions such as the CGT, UGTAN, and FO take on in colonial contexts?

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What effects did colonization have on economies and traditional societies?

It disrupted them.

What attitude toward settlers did colonization generate?

Resentment.

How did colonization encourage national consciousness?

It produced new elites.

What political goal did the CGT, UGTAN, and FO pursue beyond workplace demands?

Ending colonial rule.

What role did new political parties play in relation to trade unions?

They supported the unions.

Which groups of leaders helped drive nationalism?

Labor, local bourgeois, and Western-educated elite leaders.

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