1. POST-WW II
DE-COLONIZATION

2. THE ALLURE OF COLONIES MINERAL RESOURCES RAW MATERIALS
AGRIGULTURAL PRODUCTS

3. THE ALLURE OF COLONIES CHEAP LABOR MARKETS FOR GOODS
MILITARY & NAVAL BASES

4. THE ALLURE OF COLONIES THE BRITISH IN INDIA
FOR CENTURIES THE EUROPEAN POWERS, THE U.S., AND JAPAN HAD EXPLOITED FOREIGN LANDS FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT.
THE BRITISH IN INDIA

5. THE FRENCH IN INDOCHINA

6. THE DUTCH IN INDONESIA

7. THE JAPANESE IN MANCHURIA

8. JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY IN AFRICA!

9. WORLD WAR II LED TO GREAT CHANGES
DEFEAT OF DICTATORSHIPS
THE DECLINE OF COLONIAL POWERS
UNPARALLELED DESTRUCTION
THE RISE OF SUPERPOWERS AND THE COLD WAR

10. DEFEAT OF DICTATORSHIPS
GERMANY, JAPAN, & ITALY WERE DEFEATED AND HAD TO GIVE UP THEIR COLONIES.

11. THE DECLINE OF THE COLONIAL POWERS
BRITAIN, FRANCE, BELGIUM, AND THE NETHERLANDS WERE WEAKENED BY WW II:
ECONOMICALLY
POLITICALLY
MILITARILY
THESE COUNTRIES WERE NO LONGER CAPABLE OF WIELDING THE POWER NECESSARY TO CONTROL FAR-FLUNG EMPIRES

12. BRITISH COLONIES WERE SOME OF THE FIRST TO SEEK INDEPENDENCE
BRITAIN FELT HYPOCRITICAL ABOUT COLONIALISM
WAR LEFT HER WEAK AND UNABLE TO AFFORD COLONIES

13. UNPARALLELED DESTRUCTION
MUCH OF EUROPE LAY IN RUINS
THE COLONIAL POWERS NEEDED TO CONCENTRATE ON REBUILDING THEIR OWN NATIONS RATHER THAN CONTROLLING COLONIES

14. THE RISE OF THE SUPERPOWERS

15. AND THE COLD WAR . . .

16. LED TO THE 2 SUPERPOWERS COURTING PEOPLES AND NATIONS TO JOIN THEIR SIDE

17. In Southeast Asia, the French had control of Indochina since the 1880’s
After WW II, the people of Indochina wanted their independence from France as was stated in the Atlantic Charter
After 8 years of fighting, Indochina broke up into three independent nations – Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia

18. ALL OF THESE FACTORS LED TO THE DE-COLONIZATION OF ASIA & AFRICA FOLLOWING WW II

19. THESE NEW NATIONS OFTEN FOUND THEMSELVES CAUGHT IN A BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO SUPERPOWERS