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50. The correct answer is (A). Over a period of three hundred years, Great Britain created the largest
empire in the history of the world. It included a fourth of the world’s land area and population.
Because it included possessions all around the world, Britons boasted that the sun never set on the
British Empire.
The British Empire in 1920
Europe: Great Britain, Ireland, Gibraltar, Malta
Africa: Egypt, Gambia, Gold Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, South-West
Africa, Sudan, Tanganyika, Uganda, Union of South Africa, Zanzibar
Indian Ocean: Mauritius, Seychelles
Middle East: Aden, Cyprus, Iraq, Kuwait, Palestine
Far East: Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Malaya, North Borneo, Singapore
Australasia: Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Tonga
North America: Bermuda, British Honduras, Canada
South America: Guyana, Falkland Islands
West Indies: Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, Tobago, Trinidad

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51. The correct answer is (D). After the German occupation during World War II, France established the
Fourth Republic. The Fourth Republic spanned the difficult period of post-war recovery and was beset
with numerous problems. The immediate cause of the demise of the Fourth Republic was the inability of
the government to resolve the Algerian crisis. Algeria was inhabited mainly by Moslems but with a
significant minority of Europeans called colons. In 1954, the Moslem National Liberation Front initi-
ated a guerilla war to win independence from France. The war dragged on for many months, and the
inability of the government to solve the problem suggested to many military officers that it could only be
solved by changing the government. In 1958, the army in Algeria seized control of the civil government
and demanded that General Charles de Gaulle assume the powers of the government.