WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

DECOLONIZATION PHASE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The act of a colony becoming self-governing or independent is known as
A
Desertification
B
Decolonization
C
Colonization
D
Civil War
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -decolonization, process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country.

Detailed explanation-2: -Decolonization refers to the process, often long, tortuous, and violent, by which colonies achieve their national aspirations for political independence from the colonial metropolitan power.

Detailed explanation-3: -Decolonization or decolonisation is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence movements in the colonies and the collapse of global colonial empires.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonialism is a practice of authority, which involves the suppression of one people to another. Decolonization is the opposing of colonialism. In this process, one nation establishes itself self-governing and separate from the state it had emerged from.

Detailed explanation-5: -’Decolonisation’ is the process of ending colonial rule and handing over the political and administrative power to local people by the colonialists. Opposition to colonialism, the struggle for independence and the nations under colonisation regaining their independence are the three stages of decolonisation process.

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