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Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
The Mediterranean Sea, between Africa and Europe The Atlantic Ocean around the plate boundaries (text is in Finnish). The African and European mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent.
The scope of this article begins in 1815, after a round of negotiations about European borders and spheres of influence were agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. [3] The Congress of Vienna was a nine-month, pan-European meeting of statesmen who met to settle the many issues arising from the destabilising impact of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the ...
The war ended with the CSA being defeated and annexed by the United States. 1867, July 1 – Canada is created after the British North American provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join during the Canadian Confederation. October 11 – The United States annexes Alaska after it is sold from Russia in the Alaska Purchase.
After The Indian Rebellion of 1857, Queen Victoria was declared Empress of India, thus solidifying the British rule on the subcontinent. The last British acquisition in Asia was the New Territories of Hong Kong, which was leased from the Qing emperor in 1897, expanding the British colony originally ceded in the Treaty of Nanking in 1842.
1947 Indian independence, border between India and Tibet; 1951 Tibet cedes de facto sovereignty to the People's Republic of China; Khampa Dsong–Gangtok. 1724 China conquers Tibet from the Dzungars, border between China and Sikkim; 1947 Indian independence, border between India and Tibet; 1951 Conquest of Tibet by China; Lhasa–Tinsukia
Berlin finally fell in 1945, ending the Second World War in Europe. The war was the largest and most destructive in human history, with 60 million dead across the world. [211] More than 40 million people in Europe had died as a result of the Second World War, [212] including between 11 and 17 million people who perished during the Holocaust. [213]
After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Europe's borders were largely stable. 1708 map by Herman Moll.. International relations from 1648 to 1814 covers the major interactions of the nations of Europe, as well as the other continents, with emphasis on diplomacy, warfare, migration, and cultural interactions, from the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna.