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| 1942 |
| | | Algerian nationalist Ferhat Abbas produces a manifesto demanding independence from France | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi and nearly all the leaders of India's Congress party are arrested and will remain in prison until the end of the war | |
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| c. 1945 |
| | | Gamal Abdel Nasser and army colleagues form a secret party, the Free Officers, to fight for an independent Egyptian republic | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Demonstrations in Algeria spark off an uprising against French rule, which is put down with the loss of perhaps 10,000 Muslim lives | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Achmed Sukarno makes a unilateral declaration of Indonesian independence, and leads the subsequent struggle against the Dutch | |
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| 1945 September 2 |
| | | Ho Chi Minh proclaims the democratic republic of Vietnam, independent of the colonial power, France | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The Indochina War breaks out in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Vietminh | |
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| 1947 |
| | | In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Jawaharlal Nehru becomes prime minister of the newly independent republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes the first governor-general of the new state of Pakistan | |
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