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List of active separatist movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations. List of political parties campaigning for self-government. List of active rebel groups. List of rebel groups that control territory. List of anarchist communities. List of anarchist organizations. Stateless society. Stateless nation. Independence.
Political organisations: Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People, Yellow Ribbon. Militant organisations: Atesh, Popular Resistance of Ukraine. Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic (Annexed by Russia in 2022) People: Ukrainians, Pro-Ukrainian Russians in Ukraine.
Political party: Progressive Labour Party (Bermuda), [129][130] One Bermuda Alliance (Historically), Gombey Liberation Movement. Cayman Islands [131][132] proposed state Cayman Islands. political party: People’s Progressive Movement. British Virgin Islands [133] ethnic group: people of the British Virgin Islands.
Map of the year each country achieved independence. Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. [1] The meanings and applications of the term are disputed. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence movements ...
The term "wars of national liberation" is most commonly used for those fought during the decolonization movement. Since these were primarily in the third world, against Western powers and their economic influence, and a major aspect of the Cold War, the phrase has often been applied selectively to criticize the foreign power involved. [2]
Otpor! (English: Resistance!) was a civic youth movement that existed as such from 1998 until 2003 in Serbia (then a federal unit within FR Yugoslavia), employing nonviolent struggle against the regime of Slobodan Milošević as their course of action. In the course of two-year nonviolent struggle against Milosevic, Otpor spread across Serbia ...
Scramble for Africa Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the Americas, and the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was a victory against a great power, aided by France and Spain, Britain's enemies.