HISTORY
NEW NATIONS EMERGE
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Question
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Africans had serves as soldiers alongside Europeans to defend freedom during the war.
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Europeans had used up all of the natural resources
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Africans had set up their own independent governments during the war
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Europeans had diminished the size of European militaries during the war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Between 1945 and 1960, three dozen new states in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy or outright independence from their European colonial rulers. There was no one process of decolonization. In some areas, it was peaceful, and orderly. In many others, independence was achieved only after a protracted revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Maji-Maji rebellion in German East Africa is an example of such an event. In some regions this form of resistance continued even after the First World War. Less active forms of resistance were disobedience, absence from work, feigned illness, laziness and dawdling, and refusal to plant the expected crops.
Detailed explanation-3: -With World War I raging in Europe, African soldiers were forced to fight for their colonial masters between 1914 and 1918. France recruited more Africans than any other colonial power, sending 450, 000 troops from West and North Africa to fight against the Germans on the front lines.
Detailed explanation-4: -Africa’s manpower contribution was three-fold: the most important role was as non-combatant military labour in and out of uniform; Africans were also enlisted into colonial armies as combatants; and finally various forms of compulsion were imposed on civilian labour for the war effort.