Reconstruction Assistance Program (Marshall Plan) Union process: EEC (later EU) Welfare State and economic crisis
Decolonization of Asia
Misile crisis
Historical process that takes place mainly from the Second World War and by which the former colonies of Asia and Africa achieve political independence
Decolonization of Africa
Bipolar World
Bandung Conference
Decolonization of Near East and Maghreb
It was defined as opposed to the First World (developed capitalist countries), and the Second World (socialist countries)
Weakening of Europe Rising costs of maintaining empires Development of nationalist movements in the colonies Rejection of colonialism in European and American public opinion Bandug Conference
Perestroika and glasnost with M. Gorbachev (political and economic reforms) Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc Democratization of Eastern Europe
State of permanent tension that did not lead to an armed confrontation, by means of a policy of calculated risks
Causes of decolonization
Evolution of Western Europe
Crumbling of the socialist bloc
Decolonization (definition)
The Cold War (definition)
The Third World (definition)