Compare and contrast the importance of nationalism to two independence movements, each from a different region.

Candidates will give an account of how similar and different the importance of nationalism was in two independence movements referring to both movements throughout. While the focus of the response must be within the timeframe of this topic, the two movements chosen need not be contemporaneous with each other. They may compare the spread of nationalist ideas among different social groups, different ideologies that promoted independence and nationalism’s role in promoting insurrection. They may weigh the roles of other factors such as the economic policies of colonial powers or international intervention. It would be valid to consider the response of colonial powers to the growth of nationalism, which may have further provoked nationalist insurrection or, conversely, eased the passage to independence.