They were pushed out because if they didn't leave there'd be bloodshed. How hard is that to imagine? At the same time, they calmly left. These two things are n

They were pushed out because if they didn't leave there'd be bloodshed. How hard is that to imagine? At the same time, they calmly left. These two things are not mutually exclusive. i.e. if a squatter goes to my house while I'm on vacation and lives there, for personal safety reasons he has a gun as do I, and I come home and make it clear it's not going to end well for either of us if he's going to stay, and the squatter makes the sensible choice to leave behind what is not his peacefully and go back to where he came from, you can say that he was pushed out by my presence on the scene. After all, if I hadn't been there he'd likely have stayed. That's the best analogy I can think of to explain it to you. Decolonisation was rarely peaceful, in this case it was. But even if it was peaceful, it doesn't mean Spain left for no reason. They were pressured to leave my hundreds of thousands of civilians descending on a piece of land that wasn't theirs with the support of the country. That showed them, if they wanted to keep the land, there'd be a colonial war. And if the 50s and 60s taught the world anything, it's that colonial powers always lose their stake in the end, but not before hundreds of thousands of unnecessary lives get ruined. Further, it creates animosity that lasts for many decades. Algerians and French for example still have deep wounds that need to heal, this was a post WWII war that saw massive death, destruction, torture, assassinations etc, it was quite brutal. Spain made a more sensible choice in this particular territory.