European battlefields, but also colonies such as German East Africa became war scenes. The conflict gave an idea to the Irish, who attempted to strike for independence from the British Empire. France recruited 220,000 workers from its empire, Algeria, Indochina, Morocco, Tunisia and Madagascar, as well as from China to work behind the lines and to fight under French colours. The conflict had a negative impact on the Indian subcontinent. Britain, the ruling colonial power, raised 1.5 million Indian soldiers during the war. 90,000 were killed. From September 1914 onwards, more than 150,000 Indian soldiers were deployed in Europe. The vast majority of Indian troops had to fight in Mesopotamia against the Ottoman Empire. Many were almost forced to fight on the East African front. The First World War was in fact the beginning of the end for the colonial powers. The myth of the so-called "superiority" was no longer possible. Furthermore, the colonial authorities betrayed their promises to provide a good reason for massive recruitment. However, the real decolonization process began with World War II. A large part of the world's population lived under the yoke of colonial powers before the outbreak of the Second World War. The supposed invulnerability of colonial powers and white supremacy were challenged and challenged by the outcomes of the Second World War. After the war the colonial system was condemned, so gradually all the countries that had been subjugated to the colonial powers quickly gained independence. . Clement Attlee, the British Labor Prime Minister, understood that India's independence was inevitable. He just had to make a smooth transition. The negotiations were very difficult. The independence of India and Pakistan was... middle of paper... the quasi-slavery of the colonized peoples put to work. Colonial domination brought alienation and desperation. Frantz Fanon, for example, wrote that “colonialism is not satisfied simply with keeping a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a sort of perverse logic, it turns to the past of oppressed peoples and distorts, disfigures and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical meaning today. “Some authors argued that the social impact of colonialism depended on the number of settlers of European origin, who imposed their customs on the native population. Numerous ethnic and religious discriminations were also another legacy of the colonial occupation. This topic has not yet been exhausted. There are still many things to say about the phenomenon of colonialism…