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Negotiating Independence

Negotiating Independence. by Julia Curry and Keri Fenlon. Causes for Decolonization. -Rising nationalism in Asia and Africa -Loss of European moral authority -Temporary prostration of Europe -Opposition to the continuation of colonies in both Allied war aims and U.S. Policy

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Negotiating Independence

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  1. Negotiating Independence by Julia Curry and Keri Fenlon

  2. Causes for Decolonization -Rising nationalism in Asia and Africa -Loss of European moral authority -Temporary prostration of Europe -Opposition to the continuation of colonies in both Allied war aims and U.S. Policy - Imperialists weakened by WWII

  3. Methods of Peaceful Revolution - Boycotts: political, social - Hunger strikes - Marches - Strikes - Today: digital activism

  4. What Happened

  5. Peaceful Decolonization in Britain "Wise and happy would be the nation which, the first to bend its politics to new circumstances, would consent to see its colonies as allied provinces, and not as subjects of the metropolis." --Jacques Turgot - Appease colonies, keep influence - Policy against provoking nationalism - diplomacy vs. force

  6. India and the Gold Coast - India - Noncooperation - Gandhi - Results: undermined British authority - The Gold Coast - CPP - staged strikes - 1956 ask, 1957 independence granted

  7. Peaceful Independence - Cases where: violence is futile -> change to nonviolence much more successful - Keep international attention, sympathy - Maintain allies

  8. Consequences: Colonial - World powers weakened -> over 50 former colonies gained independence - Sudden influence over United Nations - equal say - anti apartheid - anti colonialism

  9. Consequences: Influence - Weak new countries vulnerable - Democracy vs. Communism - Ex. Korea - split credit -> split values and country - Corporations also influence

  10. Bibliography http://www.zonu.com/fullsize-en/2009-11-18-11150/Independence-of-African-countries.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_wars_of_independence http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/lockwoodm/Collapse/southeast_asia.htm p 664 in textbook http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/africa/ghana.html http://www.usip.org/events/fateful-choices-violence-and-nonviolence-independence-struggles-small-nations http://www.p olarizationandconflict.org/Papers/garoupa.pdf http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=libe91209&tabID=T003&searchId=R1&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=28&contentSet=GALE|CX2587300216&&docId=GALE|CX2587300216&docType=GALE http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CLYHR196h-0C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=peaceful+british+decolonization&ots=CJBUH74De3&sig=R0ICXo35z4mIo-xujxec2dq5Pck#v=onepage&q=peaceful%20british%20decolonization&f=false http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/index.php/movements-and-campaigns/movements-and-campaigns-summaries?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=25&sobi2Id=17 http://www.niica.on.ca/ghana/GoldCoastRoad.aspx http://www.humanityjournal.org/humanity-volume-1-issue-1/human-rights-and-decolonization-new-perspectives-and-open-questions http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09592299208405845 http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/staff/hermansenjoel/notes/decolonization.pdf http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/index.php?option=com_sobi2&Itemid=59

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