<prompt> Kupinda kweJapan muHondo Yenyika II kwakagumisa kutonga kweBritain muMalaya. Kubatwa kwakazoitwa Malaya, North Borneo neSarawak kubva muna 1942 kusvika muna 1945 kwakaparira mafungu orudzi. Mushure mekunge maJapan akasiya Malaya nekuda kwekukundwa neAllies, Malay Union yakavambwa muna 1946 nehutongi hweBritain asi zvichitevera kushorwa nevaMalay, mubatanidzwa uyu wakarongedzwazve seFederation of Malaya muna 1948 senyika inodzivirira kusvika muna 1957. MuPeninsula, bato reMalayan Communist Party rakatora zvombo kurwisa vaBritain uye kunetsana kwakatungamirira kukuziviswa kwehurumende yechimbichimbi  <response>: kwemakore 12 kubva muna 1948 kusvika muna 1960. Mhinduro yakakomba yechiuto kumhirizhonga yekomonisiti pamwe neBaling Talks muna 1955 yakatungamira mukumisikidzwa kwekusununguka kweMalaya musi wa31 Nyamavhuvhu 1957 kuburikidza nekutaurirana kwezvematongerwo enyika neBritish. Tunku Abdul Rahman akava mutungamiri wekutanga weMalaysia. Muna 1960, kugumiswa kwechimbichimbi kwakaitika sezvo tyisidziro yekomonisiti yakaderera uye kudzokera kwavo kumiganhu pakati peMalaya neThailand. 