WW2 effect on Indian polotics
- Created by: BKW
- Created on: 30-04-17 09:40
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- What impact did WW2 have on Indian politics?
- External threats
- Hitler's armies controlled Balkans and controlled Russia
- France had fallen to Nazis
- Japan attacked pearl harbour 1941
- Japan takes shanghai, hong kong, phillippines, Malaya ect...
- Japans aim ' to free Asians form European rule'
- Japanese on east India's boundaries
- Linlithgow said they couldn't hold a Japanese attack
- only solution - scorched earth policy
- Fall of Singapore 1942
- Taken by Japanese
- All defensive guns pointing outwards
- not protected against inside attack from peninsula
- Hunt surrendered garrison of 100,000 troops
- Taken prisoners
- Later form Indian National army
- Taken prisoners
- Bose
- Left congress for Forward bloc 1939
- Banned by raj 1941
- Nazis agree he could work with Japanese
- Forms Indian National army
- From Indian prisoners of war
- Forms Indian National army
- INA act as spies and agents but most got picked up and became double agenets
- 1944 6000 INA soldiers went in with Japanese
- 400 killed, 1500 died of disease, 1400 invalidated,
- Left congress for Forward bloc 1939
- America
- US navy beat Japanese at battle of coral sea 1942
- Atlantic charter
- All people should enjoy self determination after war
- increased indian hope for independance
- All people should enjoy self determination after war
- Roosevelt felt India simply could not fall to japan
- Out pressure on Churchill to agree self government
- Support from British war cabinet
- Churchill agrees and hires Cripps to lead delegation in India
- Support from British war cabinet
- Out pressure on Churchill to agree self government
- External threats
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