Which of the following best exemplifies the third wave of democratization? the United States breaking colonial rule and establishing a democracy in 1776 the election in 1871 in Paris that established a French government based on the working class the defeat of the Nationalists and establishment of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong in 1949 the split of the Korean peninsula and emergence of South Korea as a democracy after the militaristic rule of General Chun ended in 1987 Italy's first democratic elections with universal suffrage in 1948

The option that best exemplifies the third wave of democratization is the split of the Korean peninsula and emergence of South Korea as a democracy after the militaristic rule of General Chun ended in 1987. This is because the thrid wave referres to the historic democratic transitions in between approximately 1974 and 1988 in the countries of Latin America, Asia Pacific countries and regions, eastern-European countries and sub-Saharan African countries, specially talking about those who were in a military regime and were either first experiencing democracy or going back to it after a long period of dictatorship.