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  2. Algeciras Conference - Wikipedia

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    The Algeciras Conference [a] of 1906 took place in Algeciras, Spain, and lasted from 16 January to 7 April.The purpose of the conference was to find a solution to the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905 between France and Germany, which arose as Germany responded to France's effort to establish a protectorate over the independent state of Morocco. [1]

  3. Aftermath of World War I - Wikipedia

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    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. Other treaties ended the relationships of the United States and the other Central Powers.

  4. History of globalization - Wikipedia

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    The historical origins of globalization (also known as historical globalization) are the subject of ongoing debate. Though many scholars situate the origins of globalization in the modern era (around the 19th century ), others regard it as a phenomenon with a long history, dating back thousands of years (a concept known as archaic globalization ).

  5. Spain during World War I - Wikipedia

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    Spain had maintained a non-aligned stance during the political difficulties of pre-war Europe, and continued its neutrality after the war until the Spanish Civil War began in 1936. [2] While there was no direct military involvement in the war, German forces were interned in Spanish Guinea in late 1915.

  6. List of national border changes (1914–present) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Revolutions of 1917–1923 - Wikipedia

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    After the war, however, critics of the constitutional monarchy grew as the international climate proved favourable to republican or democratising institutional change, and the Restoration state proved unable to resolve a series of challenges brought on by the war, notably a postwar economic slump and renewed anti-imperial action in the colonies.

  8. Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries - Wikipedia

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    Later on, the sudden ban on Spanish silver imports to China imposed by the Qing dynasty after defeating the Ming in 1644, [44] along with a long period of economic stagnation and recession due to famines and bad financial policies back in Spain, simultaneously combined with devastating losses sustained towards the end of the Thirty Years' War ...

  9. Spanish crisis of 1917 - Wikipedia

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    The Crisis of 1917 is the name that Spanish historians have given to the series of events that took place in the summer of 1917 in Spain.In particular, three simultaneous challenges threatened the government and the system of the Restoration: a military movement (the Juntas de Defensa), a political movement (the Parliamentary Assembly, organized by the Regionalist League of Catalonia in ...