Question

describe the event of the development of democracy in the contamporary world

Answer 1

Some of the imporatant events in the development of democracy in the contemporary world have been

1. Defeat of the fascist powers in the Second World War.
2. Independence of India in 1947. India was the first major colony to attain independence after the Second World War. India adopted a democratic constitution.
3. Following Indian independence, many other countries in Asia and Africa attained independence. This process was known as decolonization. Many such countries adoted democratic constitutions.
4. Collapse of the Soviet Union and other communist governments in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Such countries also became democracies.