6 sentences with 'decolonisation'

Example sentences and phrases with the word decolonisation and other words derived from it.


« Instead, however, decolonisation was often as bloody and inhumane as the establishment of empire had been in the first place. »
« As quickly as European empires grew in the second half of the 19th century, they collapsed in the decades following World War II in a phenomenon known as decolonisation. »
« The Christian Democrats (or, in Britain's case, the Tory Conservative Party) tended to oppose the dissolution of empire, at least until decolonisation was in full swing in the 1960s. »
« While the cases of India and Israel were, and are, of enormous geopolitical significance, the most striking case of decolonisation at the time was the wave of independence movements across Africa in the 1950s and 1960s. »
« Huge numbers of middle-class or even working-class young people became the first in their families to attend universities, and the contentious political climate of the Cold War and decolonisation contributed to an explosion of discontent that reached its peak in the late 1960s. »
« The ideological divisions between these two main categories of parties had to do with social and cultural issues, support for or opposition to women's issues and feminism, the stance towards decolonisation, the proper content of state universities, etc., rather than the desirability of the welfare state. »

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