malaysia gained independence from great britain on 31 august 1957.
malaysia gained independence from great britain on 31 august 1957.
when did malaysia gain independence from great britain?
31 august 1957
the effort for independence was spearheaded by tunku abdul rahman, the first prime minister of malaysia, who led a delegation of ministers and political leaders of malaya in negotiations with the british in london for "merdeka", or independence along with the first president of the malaysian chinese association (mca) tun dato sir tan cheng lock and fifth president of malaysian indian congress tun v. t. sambanthan. once it became clear that the communist threat posed during the malayan emergency was petering out, agreement was reached on 8 february 1956, for malaya to gain independence from the british empire. however, logistical and administrative reasons led to the official proclamation of independence in the next year, on 31 august 1957, at stadium merdeka (independence stadium), in kuala lumpur, which was purposely built for the celebrations of national independence day. the announcement of the day was set months earlier by the tunku in a meeting of the alliance in melaka.
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the first colonies to gain independence were in asia. in 1946, the u.s. granted independence to the philippines, its only large overseas colony. in british india, mahatma gandhi led his followers in non-violent resistance to british rule. by the late 1940s britain found itself unable to work with indians in ruling the colony, this, combined with sympathy around the world for gandhi's non-violent movement, led britain to grant independence to india, dividing it into the largely hindu country of india and the smaller, largely muslim nation of pakistan in 1947. in 1948 burma gained independence from britain, and in 1945 indonesian nationalists declared indonesian independence, which the netherlands recognised in 1949 after a four-year armed and diplomatic struggle. independence for french indochina came only after a great conflict. after the withdrawal of japanese forces from the colony following world war ii, france regained control but found it had to contend with an independence movement that had fought against the japanese. the movement was led by the vietnamese ho chi minh, leader of the vietnamese communists. because of this, the u.s. supplied france with arms and support, fearing communists would dominate south-east asia. in the end though, france gave in and granted independence, creating laos, cambodia, communist north vietnam, and south vietnam.
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