The Fall Of The Second British Empire

from economy to culture, Great Britain thrived and controlled most of the world. But finally,the

It provided the Allied Forces with roughly $45 billion of support, nearly $30 billion of which went to the British Empire. However, even with US aid, Britain was still devastated by bombing raids, which destroyed not only public works but private estates as well. Britain economy steeply declined and luxuries her citizens once took for granted, such as meat, bread, and tobacco, were rationed even post-war. For the first time in history, Britain was a debtor nation (“Lord of the Flies,” World 228-231). Although her economy is relatively stable in the 21st century, the United Kingdom was never as great as she was pre-World War II.

Although, the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt. Moreover, the war generated

Prior to the “Imperial Crisis” 1763-1775, Great Britain had a few set backs all while carrying the world on their shoulders. France was quickly moving out of North America and Spain was out of Florida, all while loosing power, allowing for Great Britain to only move up. After about one hundred years of continuous war, Great Britain had found themselves sinking in a pile of national debt due to the fact that they borrowed money by collected taxes to reduce or try and stabilize the debt they had already piled up. Another problem that arose was that the British taxpayers demanded and received many tax cuts, which reduced government income, only reducing the spending. Limiting spending only hurt Britain more, because it was very tough to decrease the disbursement when you are the biggest world power and have the responsibility to maintain a large army and navy, all well protecting your colony from the growing of large, powerful enemies.

The United States blamed the British for its abuses on its oceans and Native American resistance in the west. To begin with, the British and French were at war during the 1810s, or the Napoleonic Wars. The British began taking sailors from American ships and forcing them to serve their country, in a process called impressment, to infuriate the U.S. and because the British were in desperate need for more sailors to prepare their incoming massive fleet. The British supported Native Americans in their land resistance in the west. For example, the British provided ammunition and supplies to the Native Americans, led by Little Turtle, to defeat Washington’s American force. Again, the British supplied the Native Americans to crush General Arthur

Starting in 1754, the Seven Years’ war began and led up to a sequence of events involving the Parliament. The Parliament is the highest legislature in Great Britain and consisted of the House of Lords and House of Commons. The Parliament made three acts because of the Seven Years’ war, which affected the colonist greatly. The three acts made by the Parliament included the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and the Tea Act. The Parliament made the acts to resolve issues and to enforce more laws, however, some acts made the colonist very upset and led up to events of commotion. The colonist had mixed emotions towards the act because some were liked and others were not.

Like all world national games everyone wants to be number one above all, they want to show that they are the best. But to reach there, you have components in which you need to build upon to get to that level. It’s just like the history of our country around the 1500's where countries were constantly battling each other trying to be on top with the policy known as Imperialism. Imperialism is the domination by one country or people over another group of people. But depending on who it comes from, Imperialism can be seen as something positive or negative.

Imperialism is the takeover of a weaker territory or country by a superior nation. Around the year 1858, India became a victim to British imperialism. It was a valuable colony to britain, they even called it the “jewel in the crown”. Imperialism brought many benefits and drawbacks to India.

Therefore in order to understand and answer this question successfully, it is important to question why Britain became an imperial power. There are various explanations as to why Britain

Over the course of history, starting from the early 16th century there have been several countries that have strived to imperialize other countries in order to achieve a myriad of goals. Consequently, imperialism has led to monumental effects that were viewed from a variety of perspectives. Great Britain was among the many countries that set up a policy of expansion and imperialized foreign powers including India and Africa. Overall, it is inevitable that Britain’s motives in imperialism was to obtain raw materials and resources which was spurred by the Industrial Revolution, a greater need for markets in order to sell goods, and a final motive being the want to spread Christianity. Although imperialism allowed Britain to gain more power, exclusive trading rights and land, it

How Imperialism Affected The British Empire “The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded” (Wright). The British Empire is the largest empire in world history, it’s where the sun would always rise but never set.

Imperialistic nations dominated much of the globe for centuries throughout the course of history. The British empire was thought to be the most powerful at the apex of its dominance during the 19th century. At one time, it was said that the sun never set on the British Empire because of their territories in each hemisphere of the globe. Although the dominance of the British International Empire subsided following the World Wars, the impact they have left on their colonies and territories would come to last for decades after and this is evident in both southern and eastern Asia. One of Great Britain’s largest and most successful colonies was that of India.

This paper will talk about the impact of British colonial conquest on India’s economy while lightly touch on the pre-colonial economic conditions as well. Colonialism refers to a process of control and domination where one country dominates the other. It is the control on the social, economic, and political policies of the colony countries (Emerson, 1969). Many European countries starting colonising other nations in order to gain raw materials, wealth, power and to spread their mission of civilization. The British controlled parts of India first through company rule 1757-1858 and later through the British raj from 1858-1947.

The first cause that I will discuss that led to British decolonization was its debt from back to back World Wars and the overall affect on the wars itself. World War 1 was costly to the British economy, but for World War 2, the economic losses were far heavier. World War 2 ate up Britain’s monetary reserves and a quarter of its stored wealth. Britain was also stripped of two-thirds of its pre-war export trade. This economic loss forced Britain into acquiring loans from the United States. This meant that after World War 2 Great Britain had emerged from war as a debtor nation with an empire still intact. The once great financial resources of Britain were devastated by the high cost of the wars and even the Great Depression before. Ultimately, this meant that Britain’s foreign policy could not be as extravagant as it was before the Wars.

The article written by Javier Cuenca Esteban, “The British balance of payments, 1772-1820: India transfers and war finance” focuses on the British ability to finance the wars with Napoleonic France. Esteban challenges the academic state of debate regarding the importance of exports on British Industrialization by pointing out that he believes without the exports from India, Britain would have struggled to finance her wars with France and may have never become the incubator of Industrialization. His argument comes back to the numbers he presents projecting the gap between foreign indebtedness actual and counterfactual would increase from 1802 to 1815 by over ninety million British pound sterling. The significant increase in debt was