OTL Decolonisation notes

Decolonization start times-
Some incidents would be inevitable, due to pathologically hostile attitudes to any ruler and/or the end of an old treaty with the ORIGINAL colonial power. Of course you could fight it or renegotiate a treaty, but it must be a skillful and thorough act. Source- Wikipedia.

Decided they could make it on their own

 * S. Africa 1927
 * Canada 1933
 * Philippines 1946.
 * Australia 1947
 * New Zealand 1947
 * The Dominion of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1947
 * Libya 1951
 * Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1955
 * Protectorate of (Morocco, France & Spain) 1956.
 * Ghana 1957.
 * British Malaya 1957 (the Kingdom of Sarawak and North Borneo Territory joined Malaysia in about 1964)
 * French African Guinea 1958.
 * Suriname 1959
 * Rhodesia 1965 (Mugabe's Zimbabwe takes over in circa 1980, unless he's killed off or jailed for life)

Hated foreign rule and left

 * 1) Ireland 1922
 * 2) Egypt 1922
 * 3) Iraq 1932
 * 4) Lebanon 1943
 * 5) N. Vietnam 1945
 * 6) Syria 1946
 * 7) Pakistan (including Bangladesh until 1974) 1947
 * 8) British India (India/Pakistan/Bangladesh) 1947
 * 9) Federation of Burma 1948.
 * 10) S. Vietnam 1949
 * 11) N. Vietnam- 1940
 * 12) Indonesia (less the Moluccas, Bali, Sulawesi, Flores and Dutch West Guinea) 1949
 * 13) Uganda 1960
 * 14) Kenya 1963
 * 15) Somalia 1960
 * 16) Zaire 1962
 * 17) Algeria 1962
 * 18) Guinea Bissau 1973
 * 19) Angola 1975
 * 20) Mozambique 1975

Ending of an old treaty with the ORIGINAL colonial power

 * 1) Nepal 1923
 * 2) Newfoundland (nominally an independent dominion but under direct British rule since 1934)
 * 3) Bhutan 1947
 * 4) The Trucial States (UAE) 1971
 * 5) Sikkim was then given to India by Britain in 1947 as a vassal and was crushed by India in 1974.
 * 6) Aruchal Pradesh was annexed by India in 1950, but a user can decide to respect the British plan for India to just Vassalage it in 1952
 * 7) for Bahawalpur, Khairpur, and the Baluchistan States was then given to Pakistan by Britain in 1947 as a vassal and was annexed in 1956.
 * 8) The Chitral and the N.W Frontier States like States Waziristan, was then given to Pakistan by Britain in 1947 as a vassal and was annexed in 1969.
 * 9) Hunza and Nagar was then given to Pakistan by Britain in 1947 as a vassal and was annexed in 1974

Inevitable colonial crisis

 * 1) Polish invasion of the Central Lithuania Republic- 1922.6
 * 2) Kleipieda Revolt- 1923
 * 3) 1932 Gran Chaco War.
 * 4) The Leticia Incident- 1933
 * 5) Saudi-Yemeni War in 1934.
 * 6) The Ecuadorian–Peruvian War of '41- 1941
 * 7) Operation Polo- 1946
 * 8) The Kashmir crisis of 1946-7
 * 9) Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion - 1952–1960
 * 10) Congo Crisis/Katanga Republic 1960 – 1965
 * 11) Algerian War of independence- 1952-1962
 * 12) Aden Emergency 1963-1967
 * 13) Cyprus 1952-63
 * 14) Breakup of the USSR- 1991
 * 15) Breakup of Yugoslavia/Bosnia/Kosovo and related other wars- 1992-1999
 * 16) Chechnya- 1992-1997 90.244.83.68 22:26, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Whipsnade (talk) 20:41, August 2, 2013 (UTC)