History · The Cold War & today's world

How did decolonization redraw the world map?

In thirty years the colonial empires collapsed and the world map was redrawn.

1945-19753 min read5 partsQuiz of 9 questions
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Between 1945 and 1975, more than 80 countries became independent. The European empires, drained by the war, gave way to nationalist movements and to a world far less willing to tolerate colonial rule.

This was not a simple change of flags. It was a global upheaval, right in the middle of the Cold War. It also left behind inherited borders and economic dependence.

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  2. 3Negotiation here, war there
  3. 4Bandung, and the voice of the South
  4. 5A new world, but an unfinished one
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