Global Decolonization Essay

Many countries around the world, both great and small were colonized by the European from as early as the fifteenth century. The Europeans colonized places such as the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Australia, New Zealand among others because they thought that these places were sources of raw materials and other commodities that will benefit them (Digital History, 2016). Consequently, after many, many years of colonialism by the Europeans, decolonization began around the nineteenth century and continued throughout the twentieth century. This essay will discuss the reasons and events that lead to global decolonization. However, before this is discussed, the concept of decolonization must firstly be examined.
According to Klose (2014), the term decolonization refers to the ‘process through which colonial rule dissolved, and it encompasses the various political, economic, cultural and social dimensions of this process both in the periphery and in the metropole’. By way of explanation, decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism. To …show more content…
However, it did not come easy. In some cases, decolonization was sometimes a violent process (revolution) while in some cases it was peaceful. The Atlantic Charter was one of the events that lead to decolonization, because of it Nationalism/ self –determination was promoted and it aided in decolonization and the fight toward independence. Both World wars One and Two had weakened the ruling countries and as a result, it was hard to control the colonies; consequently, this resulted in decolonization. With this being said, I believe, that the whole reason behind decolonization was solely Marxist. In other words, the costs of ruling some of these colonies were too much for the colonial powers and as a result they decided to grant them their