Events that created, divided, reunited or ended sovereign states, and the turning points that set those changes in motion, such as the division of Korea, the independence of Ghana, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. An event belongs here when its cited source describes the birth, division, reunification or end of a sovereign state, or the event that directly opened the way to it. The group sits under the Independence, Partition and State Formation subcategory of the Political Atlas and helps a reader browse that subcategory by whether each event created, divided or ended a state. Each member is placed on the strength of the page it cites, so a reader can follow the grouping back to a stated source.
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Partition of India (Wikipedia)
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the division of British India into two independent dominion states
German Reunification (Wikipedia)
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culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic
Division of Korea (Wikipedia)
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The division of Korea or the partition of Korea began at the end of World War II on 2 September 1945, with the establishment of a Soviet occupation zone in the north and a US occupation zone in the south.
Independence Day (Ghana) (Wikipedia)
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On Wednesday, 6 March 1957, Kwame Nkrumah declared to the people of Ghana about their freedom, he added that, "the African People are capable of managing their own affairs and Ghana our beloved country is free forever." Ghana was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve its independence from European colonial rule.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union (Wikipedia)
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The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on December 26, 1991.
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