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A movement in India wanting to create an Indian nation independent from colonial powers
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A system in South Africa that was very prejudice against the Native Africans. This system ended in 1990 when Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
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India finally gains independence in 1948 after years of oppression. However, the British before they leave partitioned India, by creating Pakistan. -
Ghana was the first nation in Africa to gain independence from a colonial power. This all started in 1949 when Kwame Nkrumah became president of the "Convention People's Party".
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A war in the British Kenya Colony between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, also known as the Mau Mau and the British authorities.
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Cuba was put under a dictatorship in 1953 this angered many people in the nation. In 1959 Cuba had a coup d'etat which put a communist dictator Fidel Castro in charge.
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The French Colony of Algeria fought a brutal war against the French to gain Independence. After 8 years they were succesful.
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Ghana was the first African nation to gain independence. Their first President Kwame Nkrumah was sworn in on March 6, 1957. -
The Congolese National Movement was founded in 1958 to support Congolese Independence from Belgium. Their leader Patrice Lumumba would gain the nation's independence on June 30, 1960.
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On June 30, 1960, the Congo finally gains independence from the Belgians, They are immediately thrown into a civil war and soon after become a dictatorship. -
After 8 years of brutal war, France finally gives Algeria independence. The National Liberation Front is the only party allowed for the next two decades. -
After the Mau Mau uprising ended in 1960 the British government started planing to give Kenya independence in 1963. -
The Cambodian Civil War was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea against the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, after October 1970, the Khmer Republic, which had succeeded the kingdom.