Can you name the countries which have most recently gained independence? by miyomiyo2

Year	Country	Previous Governing Power
2006		Serbia and Montenegro
2002		Indonesia
1994		United States
1993		Ethiopia
1993		Czechoslovakia
1992		Iraq
1992		Yugoslavia
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1991		Yugoslavia
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1991		Yugoslavia
1991		Yugoslavia

Year	Country	Previous Governing Power
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1991		USSR
1990		USSR
1990		South Africa
1990		USSR
1990		United States
1989		Vietnam
1989		USSR
1986		United States
1986		United States
1984		United Kingdom
1983		United Kingdom
1981		United Kingdom
1981		United Kingdom
1980		United Kingdom and France
1980		United Kingdom
Still Occupied by the United States	United Kingdom

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Recently Independent Countries Quiz

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Created Oct 18, 2009 in History
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	Brobert2:	Oct 18th, 2009 at 16:24 GMT	10 points
	Your choice for the first one is strange. It's odd to say Montenegro gained independence from Serbia, the two countries mutually and peacefully agreed to split to form two new nations. If you're going to do it that way you need to also include Serbia as an answer. Furthermore, you entirely missed Kosovo's independence from Serbia in 2008.

	Brobert2:	Oct 18th, 2009 at 16:35 GMT	9 points
	As an appendix to my last comment, the same goes for Czechoslovakia as well. If you're going to have it, both the Czech Republic and Slovakia need to be answers.

	Sesel:	Oct 18th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT	10 points
	Kuwait, Panama, Cambodia, and Afghanistan are in a different category than the rest of this list and shouldn't be here.

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	paulvc:	Oct 18th, 2009 at 23:36 GMT	7 points
	I don't know how Panama, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Kuwait fit here. They were all recognized as independent countries. They were never officially governed by the powers you indicate. They were either occupied or overseen by puppet governments. If you include them, there are several others you could include. But the point is you shouldn't. They were always considered sovereign independent nations that already had seats at the UN. There's really no argument for including them.

	Schweden:	Oct 19th, 2009 at 05:35 GMT	6 points
	Kosovo needs to be included, plus many of the countries were occupied, not governed. Like Kuwait was occupied by Iraq for several months, it did not really gain "independence".

	Peanut:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 14:33 GMT	6 points
	Kosovo is standardly included in Sporcle quizzes, seems weird not having it here because you don't recognise it.

	ConorONeill:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 16:02 GMT	2 points
	quite shoddy

	ddt:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 13:18 GMT	3 points
	I agree with the above commenters. This quiz needs an overhaul. As to Slovakia: surely the perception may be that the Slovaks freed themselves from the Czech "oppression", but that's not how it was worked out. CS was dissolved, and two new successor states formed, which, e.g., both had to apply for UN membership. The same for Russia and I think for Serbia.

	VladKirr:	Jun 13th, 2010 at 02:07 GMT	2 points
	Also agree with most of the above comments and if I was really nitpicking Timor-Leste did gain its independence de jure from Portugal since Indonesia's occupation was never internationally recognized but that's just me... Funny thing? I really like the idea for the quiz and even managed to guess 33 out of 36. So with just some fine-tuning this might be great