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The next big wave of revolutions occurred in the early 1900s. Between 1910 and 1923, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the end of World War I resulted in a number of new nations, particularly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Many Asian nations p  Members of the Brigade of the American Revolution, an organization of amateur historians dedicated to preserving 18th-century American history, reenact a battle.

were colonized by Japan in the first half of the 1900s; they became independent after Japan’s fall in World War II (1939–1945). Many African nations became independent in the 1960s. The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, creating new nations throughout Learn about the French Revolution.

eastern Europe and Central Asia. South Africa established its Independence Day on the date when apartheid ended in 1994. (Apartheid was the South African system of racial segregation.) Raising National Spirit A person is a citizen of the nation in which he or she is born. Some people feel a strong national identity, which may endure even if they move away from their homeland. They may raise their children as devoted citizens of a land in which they have never set foot.

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