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War, the Levant was under the rule of the Ottoman empire, which invaded and occupied Lebanon in 1516; Lebanon was not an independent and republic state back then, but a colony 

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Israel was created after WWII as a Jewish stated that was carved out of Palestine. Palestine was under British control from 1918-1948 when it was made an independent country after the termination of the British Mandate.
Leader:
Ben Guiron is a former Prime Minister of Israel and led the country into independence.
Armed Struggle: Ben Guiron prepared the country to prevent an Arab assault. May 15th, 1948 was the predicted date for the termination of the British Mandate, and the next day Israel would declare its independence, but the War of Independence was still fought from 1947-1949.
Consequences of independence:
When the announcement was made that Israel was now an independent country, five Arab states invaded and the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 began. Many other wars and acts of violence took place after Israel became an independent Jewish state.

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After the Berlin Conference of 1884, modern day Algeria came under the control of France alongside most of North and Northwest Africa. The people of Algeria were expected to provide for the French Empire, including their service in both World Wars. Divisions between indigenous Muslims and the French government became increasingly contentious by the mid 20th Century.
Process of Decolonization
Nationalist Leader: Ferhat Abbas initiated the call for Algerian independence and became the first president of free Algeria.
Armed Struggle: From 1954-1962, Algerian nationalists (FLN) fought a bloody war against France for independence.
Consequences of Independence: Following the victory for FLN, Algerians who supported France were murdered. Migrants fled to France leading to a refugee crisis.

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My Contextualization: The Philippines experienced a fair amount of colonization from the Spanish who colonized them from 1521-1989. The Spanish-American war ended with the Treaty of Paris, from which Spain seceded from the Philippines and other countries leaving them colonized by the United States. The Philippines wanting independence fought against the US, the Philippine-American War lasted only 3 years with over 20,000 combatants from both sides killed, but as many as 200,000 Filipino civilians died because of the war from famine, violence and disease. During the second World War the Japanese attacked and captured Manila, capital of the Philippines, they also occupied many other cities. But in 1945 the U.S. liberated the Japanese controlled parts of the Philippines.
Process of Decolonization
Nationalist Leader: Sergio Osmeña formed the Nacionalista party, which later became the Partido Nacionalista when his faction fused with Manuel Quezon. Together with also the help of Manuel Roxas led the Ninth Independence Mission to the US, that came to become the Tydings–McDuffie Act which gave the Philippines an official day of independence.
Peaceful transition:  It was a relatively peaceful transition of power from the United States, with the US granting the Philippines independence from the Tydings–McDuffie Act.
Consequences of Independence: The gaining of independence from the US made the government choose between two economic options from the United States. Either sacrifice the economic sovereignty for reconstruction from WWII or to oppose the bill and lose the funding from the US to rebuild.

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Before 1841, Hong Kong was mainly a farming and salt production site, and eventually became a very important free port and major international financial centre which attracted Great Britain. Hong Kong remained in the power of Great Britain, proving to be of great importance to the British economy until it was handed over to the PRC in 1984, when the British and Chinese governments signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, resulting in Hong Kong being transferred to have a high degree of autonomy under the "One Country, Two Systems" principle.

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After the fall of the USSR, the French colonization of Vietnam started in the 1880s. The French excused their imperialism and pledged to develop backward nations. Vietnamese land that was invaded by the French was used for large rice and rubber plantations. Ho Chi Ming led an independence movement against the French and claim its independence from France gaining full control of Vietnam in 1954.

Process of Decolonization
An important figure for the decolonization in Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh, he had founded the Revolutionary Youth League of Vietnam, the predecessor of the Indochinese Communist Party.  Negotiations between the French and Ho Chi Minh led to an agreement in March 1946 that pledge a peaceful solution and peaceful transition of power.
Consequences of decolonization in Vietnam were any economic progress Vietnam had made under the French after 1900 only benefited the French and many Vietnamese people were  excluded  for its benefits. Later Vietnam would increase in modernization and integration.

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Contextualization : Before imperialism in Sri Lanka, Portuguese soldiers and a portugeuse explorer arrived in Sri Lanka and found a fort at the port city of Colombo and gradually began taking control over the coastal areas. During imperialism in Sri Lanka, portuguese had control over Sri Lanka, and many Sinhalese were forced to convert to christianty, the portuguese were very cruel and greedy, and the dutch landed on the island around the early 1600s King Kandy pleaded that they get rid of the portufeuese. After imperialism in Sri lanka the british conquered the whole island, until then the inner areas of Sri Lanka was ruled by the Sinhala king and then Sri Lanka declared independence

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Contextualization: This example was during imperialism. India is filled with a lot of natural resources like Iron ore, Diamond, and Natural gas. And food was very scarce in India because of the British.
Process of Decolonization
Nationalist leader: Jawaharlal Nehru- Leader of the noncooperation committee of 1920.
Peaceful Transition of Power: There was a massive protest with Mohandas Gandhi at the head of it. this was called the salt march 60,000 indians were arrested in this march from Ahmedabad to the Arabian Sea coast. Peaceful with acts of civil disobedience. The protests got so bad that UK evacuated in 1947.
Consequences of Decolonization: After the British left in 1947, India was split into two, India and Pakistan.
Modern History
Politics: India's current leader is Ram Nath Kovind. India has a parliamentary government and the capital city is New Delhi.
Industry: Agriculture makes up 50% of India's industries and is the main industry.
Environment: India's climate is mainly tropical in the Southern regions and hot in most Northern regions. India's main natural resources are iron, diamonds, and natural gases. some of India's main endemic diseases are Malaria and Typhoid Fever.
Culture: 80% of the population of India at the time was hindu leaving 14% Muslim. 72% of india was indo-aryan and 25% were dravidian. The majority of India spoke Hindi.
Economics: India's primary imports were crude petroleum, gold, coal, diamonds, and natural gas. India's primary exports are refined petroleum, diamonds, packaged medicines, Jewelry, and cars.
Society: The population of India as of 2021 is 1,339,330,514. The population growth rate is 1% and the life expectancy is on average 70.03 years.
Miscellaneous: India's most current event is having the worlds highest daily cases of covid-19. The cutest animal in is the red panda.

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In the first half of the 19th century, Pakistan was appropriated by the East India Company, since the British empire wanted to have some control over South Asia. The 90 years of direct British rule, came to an end with the creation of Pakistan in 1947. India and Pakistan became two separate independent countries, which has to do with the fact that Pakistani are mainly Muslim, whereas Indians are mainly Hindu.
Important figures: Muhammad Ali Jinnah (founder of Pakistan)

Type of decolonization/reform (peaceful transition of power or armed struggle): The descolonización from the British was a peaceful transition; however, Pakistan and India had tensions regarding the way the two nations were divided into independent states and religious tolerant issues.

Consequences (good or bad or both) of decolonization/reform (consider the examples below):

Examples of religious turmoil?

Examples of redrawn boundaries or borders? Pakistan became composed of West Pakistan, and East Pakistan due to the majority of the people there being Muslim and of Pakistani ethnicity. East Pakistan is pretty far from West Pakistan.
Many Pakistanis migrated to either Easter or Western Pakistan.

Examples of political strife or turmoil? One of the biggest turmoils that still exists today is how blizzard the boundaries of India and Pakistan were drawn. There’s a temple of importance for India that is located in Pakistan and it should’ve been located within India territory’s boundary.
Current Leader: President Arif ALVI

Type of Government: Federal parliamentary republic

Capital City: Islamabad

Primary Industry: Agriculture

Climate: Mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north

Natural Resources: Arable land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, and limestone.

Endemic Disease (aside from Covid-19): food or waterborne diseases, vector borne diseases, and animal contact diseases.
Religion(s): Muslim (official) 96.4% (Sunni 85-90%, Shia 10-15%), other (includes Christian and Hindu) 3.6% (2010 est.)

Ethnicities: Punjabi 44.7%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%, Sindhi 14.1%, Saraiki 8.4%, Muhajirs 7.6%, Balochi 3.6%, other 6.3%

Language(s): Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Saraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashto (alternate name, Pashto) 8%, Urdu (official) 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, English (official; lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries), Burushaski, and other 8%
Primary Imports: Petroleum products, followed by palm oil, gas and ferrous waste.

Primary Exports: Textile products,  followed by cotton and rice.

Population (most updated): 238,181,034

Population Growth Rate: 1.99% - 2.0%

Life Expectancy: 69.37 years

Current Event: Domestic terrorism has reduced, but extremism and intolerance of diversity has grown. Recently, there was a bomb explosion at a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Quetta, which caused fire to spread to several nearby vehicles and ultimately killed five people and wounded 12. The Pakistani Taliban said it was behind the blast in the car park of the Serena Hotel, and that it had targeted police officers and other officials. Initial reports had suggested the target was China's ambassador, Nong Rong, fortunately he didn’t get hurt. A Taliban spokesman described this terrosim incident as an attack by a suicide bomber using a car filled with explosives.

Cutest animal found there: Markhor, a large Capra species native to Central Asia, Karakoram and the Himalayas.

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Prehistoric Iran, also known as Persia, was a land of very rich culture. Iran was never colonized but the British-India Company had established a monopoly over tobacco trade there at the expense of the local merchant class. They didn't colonize them, but they had a great influence on Iran to become what it is today. Thanks to the Shahs incompetent Iran was never fully colonized since it wasnt seen as benefical. To this day the British and Iran have trading agreements.
Process of Decolonization
Nationalist Leader:
Armed Struggle: It was very violent and it escalated quite quickly.
Consequences of Decolonization: Consequences of this were that the replacement of the government.

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Syria was under the control of France for about 23 years. The french were forcing the people to stop learning Arabic (the native language of syria), they also were stealing resources, and they were the cause of over 100000 deaths from both sides, and they also started forcing them to learn french, because of religious beliefs the muslims need to learn Arabic and they started an arms struggle to get the french out. The reason for the arm struggles is to get the french out of their home and be free again. After the french left, Hashim al-Atassi, who had been Prime Minister under King Faisal's brief reign, was the first president to be elected under a new constitution.

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Before the end of the first World War, the Levant
was under the rule of the Ottoman empire, which invaded and occupied Lebanon in 1516; Lebanon was not an independent and republic state back then, but a
colony dictated directly by the Ottomans.Ottomans were expelled from the Levant
and Lebanon was put under the control of France in 1920
Process of
Decolonization
Nationalist Leader:During World War II when the Vichy government
assumed power over French territory in 1940, General Henri Fernand Dentz was
appointed as high commissioner of Lebanon.
Armed
Struggle: the Lebanese tried to gain independence from the
French multiple times but were unable to attain their true and full detachment
from the mandate until near the end of the Great War

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In 1882, Great Britain had begun colonization of Egypt, during the  Anglo-Egyptian War, in which an agreement was made. At the time, Egypt was not considered part of the British Empire, yet Britain was called the “veiled protectorate,” even though it still took part in the Ottoman Empire. So although Egypt was still its own country, the British Empire took many military and political benefits to its advantage.
Process of Decolonization
Nationalist Leader: Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt, took a big part in Egypt’s decolonization efforts for his anti-imperialism and Arab nationalism.
Armed Struggle: The Suez Crisis was an invasion by Israel, France, and the UK, in order to gain power of the Canal from leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser had nationalized the canal and with other powerful country’s pressure, the three invaders would withdraw, creating more power for President Nasser.
Consequences of Decolonization
After the war/invasion, many anti-British/nationalist ideas grew. The monarchy was overthrown as well as new economic focus.

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Known for its pyramids and deeply rooted history, Egypt has a 7,000-year history. One of the seven wonders of the world, the Pyramid of Keops is located in Egypt. The capital city Cairo is the Arab world's and Africa's largest city. It is the heart of the country in terms of artistic, tourist and cultural aspects.

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Non-Boer settlers, most of whom were British wanting access to gold and diamonds sparked conflict which resulted in the First Boer War which lasted from 1880- 1881. The Second Boer War was fought for independence of Boers from the British in 1899-1902. Both wars resulted in British victory.
Process of Decolonization
Nationalist Leader: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999

Peaceful Transition:The 1902 peace treaty brought the British and the Boers into an uneasy alliance, enabling a united South Africa to emerge.
Consequences of Independence: The Treaty of Vereeniging allowed a South African Union to be formed. Unfortunately, an Apartheid policy was created soon after.

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Imperialism also had many negative effects on the people of Kenya because  they had to follow the policies of the Europeans who controlled  and regulated them. The indegenous people of Africa  were continuously oppressed mentally and socially. Climate varies from tropical along coast to arid in interior with small precipitation. Natural Resources are Limestone, oil, and gas are some natural resources. Endemic Disease (aside from Covid-19): Cholera, Diphtheria, Hepatitis A. Hepatitis B. HIV.

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Pre-colonialism there was a scramble for Africa. In 1884 the Berlin conference had European leaders discuss rules on colonizing Africa. Ghana had gone through economic imperialism by the British along the Gold Coast. The British had taken control over the facilitation of goods such as ivory, palm oil, gold, and cocoa.

Process of Decolonization/Reform One important figure to decolonization was Kwame Nkrumah. He was a politician and activist. He had established the Convention People’s Party (CPP), which campaigned with strikes and other actions under the slogan “Self-government now.” He believed in Pan-Africanism. It was the belief that all African descent and of similar African culture would come together in unity. He soon became the first president of free Ghana.
Though there were protests, the transition of power was peaceful. There were some good and bad consequences of decolonization. A good consequence was a new and reformed constitution. The negative effects of decolonization was an increase in poverty, increased tension between regions, and political strain between traditional local government and state government (soon resolved).

Modern History
Ghana's current president is Nana Akufo-Addo. It's current government is a Presidential Republic. The capital city is Accra. Ghana is apart of multiple primary industries such as mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building, and petroleum. It is a tropical, warm and dry (along southeast coast) hot and humid (in southwest and in the north). It is flourishing in natural resources such as gold, timber, industrial diamonds, bauxite, manganese, fish, rubber, hydro-power, petroleum, silver, salt, and limestone. Though in it's beauty there are still underlying disease's such as HIV/AIDS, meningitis, malaria, and yellow fever. The religions within this country are Christianity, Traditional, and Islam. There are many ethnicities in Ghana such as the Akan, Mole-Dagbon, Ga-Dangme Gurma, Guan, Grusi, Mande, Muslim, Akan, Ewe, Krobo, Ashanti, Fante, and Gold Coast Euro African. The Languages include English (official language), Twi, Ga, Ewe, Krobo, Asante and many more. Their primary imports are petroleum, equipment, and food products, originating primarily from China, the United Kingdom, and the United States, while their exports are crude petroleum, cocoa products, gold, and sawn wood (timber). Their population is about 32,372,889 with a growing rate of 2.26%. Life expectancy is about 69 years old. A fun fact about this country is that Twitter has announced that its Africa headquarters will be in Ghana. Ghana (or even Africa) usually not a place where most big time companies will place their businesses. New types of socials other than Whatsapp being new Ghana.

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From the Canadian encyclopedia there is a long summary of the Quebec history. Quebec was first colonized by the French, then by the 1763 by UK, and now by Canada 1982. They tried to become independent from Canada but it did not work. Now they mainly focus on strengthening French Canadian interests.
Process of Decolonization
Quebec is still a part of Canada.
Nationalist Leader: René Lévesque
Struggle: Never decolonized.

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Contextualization :Argentina had formerly been named "Viceroyalty of the Rio de Plata " in the 18th century by the Spanish. When the spanish arrived in 1516 the majority of the people living there had also a large chunk of Inca Empire. The moment the spanish arrived they established the capital Buenos aires in 1580. The empire pushed to make it a bustling port city. In 1816, Buenos Aires declared independence from the spanish thanks to General Jose de San Martin. In following years two Argentinean groups spent years in conflict over the best way to establish country.