Please tell me : How did the Western Powers LOSE their ASIAN colonies in WW2?

Question

Please folks, answer the question : don't disburden yourselves of opinions that were brainwashed into you as children!!!

Answer 1

Sorry buddy tried to find out but in vain.

Answer 2

Diverse factors applied.

Early in the war, Japan conquered much of Asia, displacing the colonial governments.

Western powers in part used indigenous resistance groups to counter Japanese occupation, which fueled an increased level of nationalism - making it difficult for colonial powers to reassert themselves post-war (this was a big, big factor).

Even where colonial powers retained their control - think the British in India - the power of the colonial government was weakened by the stress and pressures on western military, diplomatic, and economic resources during the war.

The war drained the economies and manpower of the former colonial powers - they simply didn't have the resources after the war to match whatever will they may have had to reassert their colonial authority. But, by golly, they certainly tried.

A decent little synopsis of the end of the "European World Order" in the post-war years can be found here:
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_stearns_wc_4/0,8725,1126544-,00.html

Answer 3

Its as shortygirl said, after the war most of the western powers were bankrupt and could nolonger support themselves and their colonies. So they decided to let them go.Also at that time the Asian colonies had started to rebel for their freedom.so due to the inability of the colonialists to struggle with them they just gave them freedom for sometime before they neocolonised them.

Answer 4

By metropolitan factors (Colonial rulers were unable to hold on to their colonies due to bankruptcy etc), international factors (Cold War, WW2) and indigenous factors (The SEAsians fought hard to eradicate colonial rule and gain independence).