This essay will give detailed analysis on the reasons that contributed towards their downfall such as the rise in nationalism, the Second World War and arguably the First World War, the rise of the US and other such factors. ... Though, this may not be a legitimate argument for the other European Empires, it certainly gives a sense of a new feeling of democracy within Britain, as was the feeling after the war. ... Section 4 of the Statute of Westminster expresses the freedoms in which British Empire had given, or more came under the pressure and had no choice but to give: "No Act of Parliament...
Japanese internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, caused a new sense of ethnic and national identity within the Japanese American community. In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "wh...
The Truman Doctrine was introduced on 12 March 1947, marking the start of American Containment Policy. It provided economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, which were in a state of devastation after World War II, and in fear that these weakened countries may succumb to communist pressure or t...