South Sudan, who just achieved independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011.
Britain Although Afghanistan was never part of the British Empire, it gained its independence from Britain after the signing of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty in 1919 β a treaty that granted complete neutral relations between Afghanistan and Britain.
Some fought for it others were granted it. Most countries wanted self determination.
to expand territory (empire), to gain resources, and trade.
= America the Beautiful = : O beautiful, for spacious skies, : For amber waves of grain, : For purple mountain majesties : Above the fruited plain! : America! America! God shed His grace on thee, : And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea. : O beautiful, for pilgrim feet : Whose stern, impassioned stress : A thoroughfare for freedom beat : Across the wilderness! : America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw; : Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law! : O beautiful, for heroes proved : In liberating strife, : Who more than self their country loved : And mercy more than life! : America! America! May God thy gold refine, : Till all success be nobleness, and ev'ry gain divine! : O beautiful, for patriot dream : That sees beyond the years, : Thine alabaster cities gleam : Undimmed by human tears! : America! America! God shed His grace on thee, : And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!
Belize, who gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1981.
Also most of South America, they all won their independence from Spain.
Spain
Belize
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Haiti.
france i think
The country of Costa Rica didn't have to fight to gain its independence, their celebrate their independence day on September 15, the same day Mexico celebrates its own, this is because it was after Spain defeat by Mexican Independence War that the country of Guatemala declared the independence of all the other countries of Central America.
Haiti,a Caribbean island under French rule, was the first country in Latin America to gain independence.
Yes. It was a 'friendly' separation when Guatemala and the rest of Central America split-up from Mexico in 1823 and conformed the Federal Republic of Central America.
No. Haiti qualifies as such.
Samoa was the first pacific country to gain their independence