What you must do in this unit
- Take a moment and read my notes on
- Decolonization (and watch my short video)
- Globalization (and watch my short video on modernization)
- the Division of South Asia (and watch my short video)
- Democratization
- Decolonization is also covered in these units of HIS 112:
Submit
- Post (or respond) with your thoughts/ideas/comments about this unit's reading in the discussion board in Canvas: How was decolonization in Africa affected by the Cold War? (5 points)
What you can do in this unit
- Influential Leaders Involved in the Decolonization of Africa (A timeline created by Trang Nguyen and Soshinie Singh.)
- Lilo Rheinstein, former student, created this excellent timeline on the decolonization process, listing all the countries that became independent. See also David Dennie's 40 Years of War in Vietnam.
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
- Georg Sørensen. Democracy and Democratization
- Decolonization in Africa (Kwame Nkrumah Sekou Toure)
- Joshua Cole on decolonization and the Cold War
- Crash Course: Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant
- Arundhati Roy, Come September (September 2002 speech)
- John Darwin, Decolonization: A History of Failure?
- For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the URL and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.
Extra Credit Options
- For extra credit, please suggest a relevant website for our study of the Cold War in this course. Send your instructor the title of the site, the URL and a brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to the material being studied this unit.
Unit Learning Objectives
- Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to (1) Explain some of the causes of the process of decolonization after 1945 and d (2) assess the significance of some of the key events in the decolonization movement from 1945 to the present.