Multiple choice

Which of the following statements about Africa in the years after WWII is true?

  1. Most African colonies gained national independence.

  2. Most African countries joined either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

  3. Colonial patterns of trade disappeared

  4. There was little postcolonial conflict in newly independent states.
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Explanation

Following WWII, the decline of European imperial power led to a wave of decolonization across Africa, where the vast majority of colonies achieved their independence between the 1950s and 1970s.

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