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Write a critical note on the process of decolonization accelerated by the second World War.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Decolonization and Underdevelopment

The Second World War (1939-45) did not create anti-colonial sentiment, but it acted as the decisive accelerant that converted scattered nationalist agitation into an irresistible worldwide movement.

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  • Financial and Military Exhaustion of the Imperial Powers
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  • Mobilization and Radicalization of Colonial Peoples
  • Japan and the Collapse of the Myth of Invincibility
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