Relier Pairs The consecuences of WWIIVersion en ligne The decolonization process par Gehistart Artgeo 1 Bipolar World 2 Perestroika and glasnost with M. Gorbachev (political and economic reforms) Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc Democratization of Eastern Europe 3 Bandung Conference 4 Decolonization of Africa 5 Decolonization of Near East and Maghreb 6 Misile crisis 7 Reconstruction Assistance Program (Marshall Plan) Union process: EEC (later EU) Welfare State and economic crisis 8 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 9 It was defined as opposed to the First World (developed capitalist countries), and the Second World (socialist countries) 10 State of permanent tension that did not lead to an armed confrontation, by means of a policy of calculated risks 11 Decolonization of Asia 12 Historical process that takes place mainly from the Second World War and by which the former colonies of Asia and Africa achieve political independence Causes of decolonization Decolonization (definition) The Cold War (definition) Crumbling of the socialist bloc Evolution of Western Europe The Third World (definition)