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Vor 4 Tagen · France’s Role in Redrawing Borders. In the aftermath of World War I, several countries experienced territorial changes. France played a crucial role in redrawing borders, gaining Alsace-Lorraine, African colonies from the German Empire, and Middle East territories from the Ottoman Empire. These gains were officially recognized as League of ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Ottoman Empire, empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia (Asia Minor) that grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. The Ottoman period spanned more than 600 years and came to an end only in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic and various successor states in southeastern Europe and the Middle East .
Vor 2 Tagen · During this time, the European empires of Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden began to explore and claim the Americas and its natural resources and human capital, leading to the displacement, disestablishment, enslavement, sometimes even the genocide of the Indigenous peoples in the Americas, and the establishment of several settler colonial states.
Vor 3 Tagen · Although France was ultimately a victor of World War II, Nazi Germany's occupation of France and its North African colonies during the war had disrupted colonial rule. On October 27, 1946, France adopted a new constitution creating the Fourth Republic , and substituted the French Union for the colonial empire.
Vor 4 Tagen · For instance, he emphasizes the critical role CFU films had in the British government’s ‘attempt to stage-manage the “end”’ of empire by showing how the CFU worked to obfuscate the colonial violence, racial injustice, and economic exploitation that marked the end of British rule in the former colonies (p. 9). He shows how CFU films projected a fantasy of British altruism in global ...
Vor 2 Tagen · In this it differed from contemporary colonial-style empires. The result of this was that, while the British and French empires declined in the 20th century, a large portion of the Russian Empire's territory remained together, first within the Soviet Union, and after 1991 in the smaller Russian Federation.
Vor einem Tag · Most of the episodes listed here deal with insurgencies and revolts in the various colonies of the British Empire. During its history, the United Kingdom's forces (or forces with a British mandate) have invaded, had some control over or fought conflicts in 171 of the world's 193 countries that are currently UN member states , or nine out of ten of all countries.
