liberation wars
Freedom-seeking armed struggles
Liberation wars are armed conflicts fought to free a people or territory from foreign rule, colonial domination, or perceived oppression.
The term carries ideological weight—one side's liberation war is often another's insurgency or rebellion.
The Algerian liberation war ended French colonial rule.
National liberation movements of the twentieth century produced dozens of such conflicts across Africa and Asia.
- Mau Mau UprisingKenyan anticolonial insurgency, 1950s
- American RevolutionColonial separation from Britain
- Haitian RevolutionSuccessful slave rebellion, 1790s
- freedom fightersArmed opponents of oppression
- Pan-AfricanismContinental and diaspora solidarity ideology
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liberation warsimperial conquest
Forcible expansion of empire
colonization · occupation · annexation · subjugation · territorial expansion
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