Use the Passage Below and Your Knowledge of World History

question 70

Essay

Use the passage below and your knowledge of world history to answer all parts of the question that follows.
Following the Second World War, the political elites of Great Britain and France, the last remaining colonial powers of any consequence, believed that they could engineer the transfer of power to "trustworthy" indigenous leaders in the colonial territories previously under their control, and that they could manage this transfer in accord with the colonial ruling elites' own ideas. It was hoped that these transitions would be long and drawn out-in other words, lasting decades rather than a few years-and that they would take place peacefully. There was also the expectation that the newly independent states, not without gratitude for many years of colonial "partnership," would cultivate harmonious relations with their former colonial powers. With this in mind, decolonization was understood as a strategy and political goal of Europeans, a goal to be reached with skill and determination.
Decolonization: A Short History Jan C. Jansen & Jürgen Osterhammel
Translated by Jeremiah Riemer
(A) Identify ONE transfer of power that went to "trustworthy" indigenous leaders as described in line 3.
(B) Identify and explain why these transfers of power did NOT go as the countries hoped, as stated in the second sentence.
(C) Identify and describe a postcolonial relationship between a former colony and its colonizer.

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