What Spurred  the Growth of Anticolonial Nationalism in Asia and Africa

question 8

Multiple Choice

What spurred  the growth of anticolonial nationalism in Asia and Africa in the 1930s?

• A)Colonial powers had begun to loosen their authoritarian-type governments in their colonies.
• B)The global depression forced colonial powers to increase their power in their African and Asian territories.
• C)Because of a lack of global markets, a freer labor market developed in the colonies.
• D)Global insecurity led to a decline in anticolonial nationalist movements.
• E)The economic crisis of the Great Depression led powers, such as Britain and France, to impose harsher policies of colonial exploitation on their colonial possessions.

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