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Bermudians voted against independence for the territory in a 1995 referendum by 73.6% to 25.7%. Gibraltar: 7 November: 2002: Gibraltar held a referendum on whether or not to share sovereignty with Spain. 98.48% of voters rejected the proposal in favour of remaining solely a British overseas territory with only 1.02% supporting the proposal.
Demonstration against the Treaty in front of the Reichstag building. After the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, between Germany on the one side and France, Italy, Britain and other minor allied powers on the other, officially ended war between those countries.
1919–1922 — The Treaty of Versailles divides Germany's African colonies into mandates of the victors (which largely become new colonies of the victors). Most of Cameroon becomes a French mandate with a small portion taken by the British and some territory incorporated into France's previously existing colonies; Togo is mostly taken by the British, though the French gain a slim portion ...
After World War I, several former German and Ottoman territories in the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific were governed by the UK as League of Nations mandates. Some were administered directly by the UK, and others by British dominions – Nauru and the Territory of New Guinea by Australia , South West Africa by the Union of South Africa ...
Territory Purchased by Purchased from Cost Year Area Cost/Area Agreement (article) Isle of Man, Hebrides, Kintyre and islands of the Firth of Clyde [1] [2] Scotland: Norway: 4,000 marks sterling, 100 mark annuity 1266 ~8,000 km² ~0.5 marks sterling/km² Treaty of Perth: Dunkirk and Fort-Mardyck [3] France England: 5,000,000 livres: 1662 ~44 km²
Name of territory Dates Status Comments The Philippines: 1898–1946 Unincorporated territory First under military administration, later under an insular government in preparation for independence [1] Cuba: 1898–1902 Provisional military government Under military administration after Spain ceded Cuba to the United States [2] Puerto Rico: 1898 ...
The promised territories included eastern Thrace, the islands of Imbros and Tenedos , and parts of western Anatolia around the city of İzmir. In May 1917, after the exile of Constantine I of Greece, Greek prime minister Eleuthérios Venizélos returned to Athens and allied with the Entente. Greek military forces (though divided between ...
The remaining territories inhabited by divided peoples fell into the composition of existing or newly formed states. Legally, the collapse of the empire was formalized in the September 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye with Austria, which also acted as a peace treaty after the First World War, and in the June 1920 Treaty of Trianon with Hungary.