World War II would shatter Europe's supremacy, prompting a three world order struggle. The first order incorporated the US and its allies, entangled in a Cold War with the Soviet Union, known as the second world. The Third World consisted practically of every other nation but, most notably Africa.
Self-assured and entrenched in its governance ideologies, the Soviets would move to expand their sphere of influence in the world through stockpiling weapons in order to defend its border. However in the third world, hostility would break out as anticolonialist searched for a means to freedom. The Soviet dependence on authoritarianism would undermine its social welfare plans and by the mid-1980s, rising financial influence and extremism in Africa …show more content…
Influenced by the United States and the Soviet Union, Britain surrendered its African settlements one by one. French colonies would take a comparative course, having no issue turning loose its settlements, except for Algeria. Violent decolonization would be the norm, where white colonist complicated the exchange of power to the new local African leaders. France’s hesitation to concede Algeria stemmed to a great extent from the intense lobbying by white French settlers who dominated Algeria's political and financial circles until an insurgency would force Charles de Gaulle to end the war. Another example of violent decolonization took place in Eastern and Southern Africa, where in Kenya, the Mau Mau Uprising forced Britain to fly in troops before ultimately granting independence. In the Portuguese colonies and Southern Rhodesia, war would last longer. A key difference to this decolonization was the fact; women played key roles in the process. South Africans would keep a firm grasp through racial isolation called apartheid. Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress initially asked for peaceful demonstrations, although would authorize armed insurgency against the white administration. Russia’s resolve to keep the west at bay from future intrusions would seize Eastern Europe as a safeguard, as an option to democracy. Soviet pride in its World War II triumph and …show more content…
Rhodesia's white government would cease to exist, leaving South Africa's white elitist to remain isolated. In South Africa, during the mid-90’s, due to the cruel measures against Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress and the fears of becoming an outcast nation, South Africa’s de Klerk sponsored free elections the paved the way for the white leaders to be voted out of office. In spited of this progression, most African states failed to establish their economies, falling into internal political wars and failing to integrate different groups inside their newly formed state. Ethnic and local political sects guaranteed that neither piece nor solidarity could be ensured even after the end of the cold