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Nelson Mandela, a leader of the African National Congress, spent twenty-seven years in prison before being released in 1990; four years later, he became the first black African ____ of South Africa.

In which of the following ways did the decolonization of the Americas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries differ from the decolonization of Africa and Asia in the twentieth century?

Which of the following describes how the Ayatollah Khomeini viewed the revolution he had launched in Iran?

In the developing world after independence ____.

Which following statement is true of the South African freedom struggle?

The European colonial empires of the nineteenth century were distinctive from earlier colonial empires in the degree to which the later empires ___.

European colonial policies contradicted their own values and practices at home in all of the following ways except

At independence in 1947, India was split into two countries, with a Muslim nation called _____ taking shape alongside a mostly Hindu India.

By securing a Western education, a colonial subject could hope to ___.

Some historians have argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union was ultimately caused by _____.