What Distinguished the End of the Colonial Empires in the Second

question 30

Multiple Choice

What distinguished the end of the colonial empires in the second half of the twentieth century from other cases of imperial disintegration?

• A) The mobilization of the masses around a nationalist ideology
• B) The absorption of colonial subjects into the countries that had ruled them
• C) The wholesale adoption of Western culture by former colonies
• D) The almost complete absence of violence in the struggle for independence

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