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The New-York Tribune printed this map on 9 November 1919, of the armed conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe in 1919, one year after World War I had ended: [1] Baltic States War of Independence and Russian Civil War
1918–1919: Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia; 1918–1958: Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts. 1919: Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia; 1918–1919: German Revolution; 1918–1919: Greater Poland Uprising; 1919–1922: Greco-Turkish War; 1918–1921: Franco-Turkish War; 1920: Armenian-Turkish War; 1919: Christmas Uprising; 1919 ...
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Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png – Europe without borders, showing some of North Africa and Western Asia. Image:BlankMap-Europe-v4.png – Version of Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png, but with borders shown; Image:BlankMap-Europe-v5.png – White background, black borders, blue sea.
Background map : Africa map political-fr.svg (this revision) (modified) created by myself ; Reference maps : Map by John Bartholomew & Co. visible on Britishempire.co.uk ; Map from Hammond's Atlas of the Modern World, 1917 ; Map from WHKMLA Historical Atlas ; Map from the Texas Education Agency. Author: Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) Permission
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 ...
Europe's formal holdings included the entire African continent except Ethiopia, Liberia, and Saguia el-Hamra, the latter of which was eventually integrated into Spanish Sahara. Between 1885 and 1914, Britain took nearly 30% of Africa's population under its control; 15% for France, 11% for Portugal, 9% for Germany, 7% for Belgium and 1% for Italy.
The Spanish Civil War exposed political divisions across Europe. The right and the Catholics supported the Nationalists as a way to stop the expansion of Bolshevism . On the left, including labor unions, students and intellectuals, the war represented a necessary battle to stop the spread of fascism and support the cause of the Spanish ...