From the Second World War to Cold War and Post-Colonialism, 1939–1980

From: Humans

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This chapter discusses how, as the supremacy of European imperialism was replaced by the imperial power of the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII, popular resistance in the form of anti-colonial and independence movements took place across Latin America and in India, Vietnam, Palestine, and Africa spurred on by the pressures of the World Bank and IMF loan conditions, as well as in Indigenous, civil rights, women’s and LGBTQ+ movements.