It didn't. It was a gradual process spanning the late 19th and 20th centuries. World War 2 left Britain weakened internationally and still less capable of controlling a vast empire. Britain withdrew from most of the Middle East in 1946-48. India was granted independence in 1947, Ghana and Malaya in 1957, Most of Britain's African colonies weren't freed until the 1960s: Hong Kong remained a colony until 1997, the Falkland Islands to this day.
Where possible, the British sought to hand power to traditionally-minded rulers who would respect British business in the former colonies. Decolonisation was complicated in some territories by the presence of privileged white settler minorities: British failure to bring about majority rule resulted in uprisings in Kenya in the 1950s and Rhodesia (whose white regime had proclaimed independence rather than share power) in the 1970s.
it started to break up when the british empire signed a mandate over palestine
British Empire (up to around 1950). Not really an empire, but the USA.
The British Empire
The British Empire was made up of all the British Colonies.
A centralized empire is a vast empire that has a single base power and several colonies. A strong example of this is the British empire. The British empire was ruled by the British parliament and Queen of England, however it had several colonies that made up the empire.
The British Empire. Great Britain is the latgest island of the British Isles.
The British Empire started to break-up from 1947. The British government had a policy of deolonisation from the 1940's until the 1980's (with Zimbabwe, Belize and Brunei being given independence in the 1980's). The last major British colony ended in 1997 with Hong Kong being given back to the PRC.
it was all to do with the war
Done by the Treaty of Versailles.
Not currently. New Imperialism was a policy of the British Empire from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. The British Empire set up many colonies throughout Africa during that time.
The British Empire no longer exists. It came to an end during the late 1940's and 1950's. About 50 of the old members of the British Empire are now independent countries within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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