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If you are referring to the period of colonization and colonialism, certainly one of the first was the United States of America, which declared its independence from England in 1776; the Americans fought and won the Revolutionary War (1775-1781). Another early country to declare independence was Haiti, which gained its freedom from France in 1804.
The Korean War in 1950 and the Indo-Chinese War and the Chinese civil war in which the Communists won and that nation became a communist country.
He was the President of the South African Rugby Union when the South African Springboks won the Rugby World Cup in 1995.
Won is the national currency of both North and South Korea
All of them except Liberia, Ethiopia, Egypt and South Africa.
African nations won independence after World War 2 in various ways. Some made agreements and treaties with their colonizers while others had to fight for their independence.
The country that won the 1950 World Cup is Uruguay after beating Brazil 2 goals to 1.
Egypt (1922) was the first African nation to become independent from a European nation, but it was not a colony (it was a protectorate). The first colony to become independent was Italian Libya in 1951.
France never won independence. It never was a colony of any country.
Columbia
Uruguay.
Mexico (which had won its independence from Spain only 15 years earlier).
Finland
the Philippine islands
Gwendolyn Brooks (won one for poetry in 1950).
No country won its independence from Great Britain in 1996. The United Kingdom is an independent country which includes England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.