Decolonization After 1900 Practice Test

After independence, many states in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East pursued rapid economic development through state planning, import-substitution industrialization, or land reform. Leaders argued that colonial economies had been structured to export raw materials and import finished goods. Which policy goal most directly reflects attempts to reverse this colonial economic pattern?

After 1900, decolonization sometimes occurred through negotiated constitutional change, but in other cases it involved violent conflict. In French Algeria, a large settler population, competing nationalisms, and state repression contributed to a prolonged war that ended with Algerian independence in 1962. Which strategy was most characteristic of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) during this struggle?