- Africa
Sétif massacre
A nationalist demonstration at Sétif on VE Day is met with mass killing of thousands of Algerians, radicalising the independence movement.
Era: French Conquest and Settler Colony
Sources: History of Algeria · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Algerian War · EBSCO Research Starters
- Africa
Separate overseas territory
The Comoros are detached from Madagascar and constituted as a distinct French overseas territory, beginning to acquire their own institutions.
Era: French Colonisation
Sources: History of the Comoros · Wikipedia, Comoros: History · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Africa
Upper Volta reconstituted
After the war and Mossi pressure, Upper Volta is re-established within its former boundaries as a French West African territory.
Era: Conquest and the Colony of Upper Volta
Sources: French Upper Volta · Wikipedia, Background Notes: Burkina Faso · U.S. Department of State
Colonisation in the 1940s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged colonisation — the establishment, administration and ending of colonial rule, narrowed to the 1940s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1945 to 1947. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1945
- Latest
- 1947
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.