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Gained independence in 1945 from Italy

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Indonesia formally achieved its independence from the Netherlands as the United States of Indonesia on December 27, 1949

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India gained independence from the British colonial rule on August 15th, 1947.

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Vietnamese force defeated the French military at Dien Bien Phu in 1956.

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In 1957 the British colony of the Gold Coast became the independent nation of Ghana.

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Laos previously had been a Protectorate of France and had become an independent state as part of the French Union in 1949.

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Cambodia won its independence from France on November 9, 1953, officially ending eight decades of colonial control.

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all of the North African states gained independence from their colonial European rulers

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Jamaica became independent on August 6, 1962, remaining a member of the British Commonwealth.