Philippines becomes independent under a treaty with the United States

Hồ Chí Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi after the August Revolution. The declaration invoked the language of universal rights and rejected French claims to restore...

The UN Charter entered into force after ratification by the required states. It created new forums for international disputes and included a trusteeship system for former League mandates and other...

Ratings at the HMIS Talwar signal school in Bombay stopped work over poor conditions and discriminatory treatment. The strike spread to ships and shore establishments, joining service grievances...

The Council’s first session marked the launch of a system that included territories held under League of Nations mandates. The UN framework promised political, social, and educational advancement...

Foreign troops completed their departure from Syria after years of nationalist pressure and diplomatic disputes over the French mandate. A three-day celebration in Damascus followed. The withdrawal...

Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that Britain would transfer power in India no later than June 1948. The announcement came amid mass anticolonial mobilization, labor unrest, naval revolt,...

The British government accepted a plan to divide British India into two independent dominions, India and Pakistan, with partition of Punjab and Bengal. The plan responded to political deadlock and...

The British Parliament enacted the Indian Independence Act, creating the dominions of India and Pakistan from 15 August. It divided Punjab and Bengal and ended British sovereignty over British...

The transfer of power established Pakistan as a self-governing dominion, created from Muslim-majority regions of British India. The new state inherited a divided geography, urgent administrative...

India became an independent dominion at the end of British rule. Independence followed decades of mass movements, labor and peasant organizing, and political negotiation, as well as India’s large...