Instead, years of bloody fighting brought independence. Milf sex In most places, the transfer of power was from elite to elite, and social gains in many places was at best, minimal. Jews, Polish intellectuals and communists were rounded up and killed during German offensives into eastern Europe. As China and Japan bitterly struggled throughout the 1930s for control of east Asia, the West to a great extent watched from the sidelines. Western European hegemony came to an end as independence movements in Africa and Asia succeeded in the decades after the war. The Winning of Independence in South and Southeast Asia. The retreat of the once-powerful British from Asia prompted similar responses from the Dutch and French, most notably in Indonesia and Vietnam. In 1947, the jewel in the British crown was divided into India and Pakistan; later Sri Lanka and Burma (Myanmar) also received independence.
