Why Did The British Empire Fall

How did the British Empire fall?

WW2 caused the fall of the British Empire for two reasons. Firstly, many nations such as India could no longer remain patient to slavery and Indian who had united together to fight in the war gained momentum as a result of WW 2 and started revolting against the british to get back their own Land. The losses to the Japanese also destroyed the myth of European omnipotence. Secondly, the UK was financially exhausted and heavily in debt to the US. This left it almost impossible to defend its far-flung colonies by force. The US capitalised on its position of banker and forced the UK to abandon the empire by threat of economic collapse otherwise. This was so that vast markets were opened to American companies and to weaken the UK in general.

How did the British Empire fall?

Well you won't be able to write a full report on the info you get on YA but i can give you a few pointers

There are a large number of factors as to why the British Empire fell. The most direct and obvious factor is
WW2-
Basically the UK was devastated by the war with Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire. Her only ally France fell within a few months of the wars beginning so Britain was left alone to face the full might of Europe for three years before she got any help. The war was actually fought very well with Britain securing her boundries and almost kicking the Germans out of N. Africa even before the Americans joined however this came at a terrible price. German bombers practically ruined British industry and the UK could not afford to repair them and every last penny had to be put into the military. Thus by the UK had no economy and was heavily in debt. This meant that she could not afford to protect and invest in her colonies so had to (peacfully) give them up.

The next bit is actually quite taboo and is not usually even discussed until you go to higher education but you should definetely put a bit in to impress your teacher. The topic is
-American Ambiton
See while the USA was on Britain's side during the war it most certainly had its own agenda. Britain had ruled the world up until WW2 and America was desperate to take her place as superpower. When German U-boats were roaming the Atlantic sinking British shipping the UK had no choice but to buy supplies of of America or she would have starved. So America agreed to lend Britain the supplies... sounds good right? Wrong. The supplies had to be paid back at crippling costs with huge interests rates. So at the end of the war France's debts were forgiven and both the Germans and French were actually given free money by the Americans, Britain had to pay every penny back. We only finished paying back the debt in 2006. Another example you should include is the Suez crisis in which America refused to back the UK, instead siding with her Soviet enemies just to make sure Britain didn't regain power.

There are other factors such as the growing nationalistic sentiment amongst the colonies especially in India and in parts of Africa which you should include but the two above are the main ones.

Why did the Russian and British Empire fall?

Big Bad Bob, google "Russian Empire", you'd be surprised

What caused the fall of the British Empire?

The direct cause was World War II, and the rise of the United States and the Soviet Union as world superpowers.

When the Japanese occupied British colonies in Asia, this left Australia and New Zealand open for invasion. Britain had boasted that Singapore was an "impregnable fortress" - but it fell to the Japanese. With the British military defeated, Australia and New Zealand turned to the USA for assistance and formed a military relationship - one that lasts to this day. After WWII, the British colonies occupied by the Japanese refused to return to British colonial rule and wanted their independence. Likewise, Australia and NZ became closer to the US at the expense of Britain.

After WWII, the USA and the USSR emerged as the world's superpowers. One was democratic and one was communist - but both were anti-imperialist. Both hated European colonialism. When Britain tried to exert her power in the Suez Crisis of 1956 - a clear example of the old British colonial foreign policy - an irritated USA forced Britain to back off or face serious economic consequences. Britain humiliatingly backed off, prompting the then British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to make the famous "Wind of Change" speech on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town, which admitted that the British Empire was over and Britain was no longer a world power.

Why do empires rise and fall?

Empires rise when they dominate the strategic industries of their era. They fall when they lose dominance. If nobody has dominance, there is inevitably war.

The Spanish Empire depended upon Spain's domination of the shipping industries and gold. When gold became less important, the Spanish colonies and it's empire fell. The British Empire depended on shipping, industrialization, and textiles; America was developed as a cotten-growing colony for export to Britain, which would turn the cotton into clothes. When the rest of Europe caught up to British industrialization and there was no dominance, we had World War I. After the war, nobody took the international lead (though the US could have), so we had World War II. Afterward, the American Empire (major bases in conquered Germany and Japan, allies/vassals around the world) rose to prominance on atomic and computer technology; the Soviet Empire wasn't quite able to keep up and collapsed.

I speculate that the upcoming strategic industries will be biological and/or nanotechnological in nature, but I can't honestly be totally sure. Still, it worries me that nobody is really in the forefront of biological or nanotech research, since without dominance there'll be war.

Reasons for the rise and fall of the British Empire?

The rise: a superior Navy.... the fall: economic expenditure from two world wars.

Why did the Spanish Empire fall?

While war did have a major effect on Spain, its fall was truly because of inflation. After Spain flooded the world market with silver, the price, naturally, dropped considerably. As most Spanish money was made of silver, their use was tied to that of silver, so the cheaper silver was, the less the Spanish pieces of eight were worth. Spain also rarely changed the tax levels during this time, so they started earning less and less income, but still had the same amount of expenditure. The true watershed moment, however, was the destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Aside from losing their prestigious place as the best naval power in the world, Spain also had to then rebuild the entire fleet. This was too much for the Spanish coffers. Their inability to keep up with repairing and maintaining their armies and fleets got worse each time they fought another war. Eventually they had virtually no fleet and no garrisons on their islands except for Spain. Napoleon's invasion of Spain was the moment when most of the colonies realized Spain was weak enough for them to rebel. That was the true end of the empire, even though it was persist until the 20th century and the Spanish-American War.