Why is 1960 referred to as a "miraculous year" for African countries?
A) The year 1960 saw worldwide revolutions in favor of independence from Western colonization.
B) South Africa was allowed free elections and elected Nelson Mandela.
C) More than half of the African continent gained their independence that year.
D) All of the former colonial possessions in Africa were granted their independence that year.
E) The World Bank forgave all the African countries' debts to foreign banks.
C
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a. was a broad set of principles in the spirit of Wilson's Fourteen Points. b. denounced colonialism and slavery in Africa. c. involved the lending of war supplies by the United States to Great Britain. d. announced the U.S. desire to keep Europeans from interfering in the Americas.
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a. Massachusetts b. Indiana c. New York d. Wisconsin e. Oregon
"Shuttle diplomacy" was most successful when applied to what country in the 1970s?
A. The Soviet Union B. Egypt C. Iran D. China
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A) sugar B) deerskins C) cotton D) maize