End of Empire
- Created by: CAugust100
- Created on: 26-01-17 12:17
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- End of Empire
- Britain and India
- Britain's empire in 1922
- 33million km2 of land
- 458 million people
- Legislation
- 1917
- Edwin Montagu promises India more involvement in its own affairs
- 1919
- Government of India Act
- 6 million voting rights
- 1929
- Lord Irwin brings up dominion status
- 1935
- 36 million can vote
- 1942
- Cripps offer proposed
- Offer independance after WW2
- 1947
- India has independance
- Cripps offer proposed
- 1917
- INC
- Indian National Congress
- Founded in 1885
- Operated within constitutional bounderies
- Identified with Gandhi
- Violence
- Armistar 1919
- 379 killed
- Riots in 1942
- 93 policemen killed
- 208 police stations bombed
- 328 railway stations bombed
- Armistar 1919
- Britain's empire in 1922
- France and Algeria
- French empire in 1940
- 110 million people
- 12.3 million km2 of land
- Franco-Algerian conflict 1954-1962
- 12,000 French deaths
- Between 227,000 and 1 million Algerian deaths
- 1958
- Army seizes the Algerian Governement
- Demands Charles de Gaulle into power
- Army seizes the Algerian Governement
- 1957
- La Question
- Accounts of torture on Henri Alleg by French paratroopers
- Sold 60,000 copies
- La Question
- 1959
- Charles de Gaulle speaks of elf determination
- 1962
- Evian Accords bring an end to the conflict
- 1962
- Charles de Gaulle speaks of elf determination
- Algeria was a department of France (A county)
- More of a symbolic importance than India
- After WW2 a greater importance was placed on the Empire
- "Without its empire France wouldn't be a liberated country. Thanks to its empire, France is a conquering power"
- Gaston Monnerville 25th May 1945
- "Native people will become French through education"
- Robert Aldrich
- "Without its empire France wouldn't be a liberated country. Thanks to its empire, France is a conquering power"
- Nationalism arose from Nazi occupation
- USSR and USA supported colonials
- French empire in 1940
- Britain and India
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