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  2. German colonization of Africa - Wikipedia

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    In all 3200 Germans took up the opportunity of acquiring citizenship. At the start of World War II, South Africa aligned itself to the United Kingdom by a slim majority, and on 6 September 1939 South Africa officially declared war on Germany and the Axis. In 1939, many of those in South West Africa of German origin were put under house or farm ...

  3. German colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    2,953,161 [1] km 2 (1,140,222 sq mi) Population. • 1912. 11,979,000 [1] An East African Askari soldier holding Germany's colonial flag. The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto ...

  4. Scramble for Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Scramble for Africa[a] was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914): Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain. In 1870, 10% of the continent was formally under European control.

  5. German East Africa - Wikipedia

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    German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique. GEA's area was 994,996 km 2 (384,170 sq mi), [2][3] which was nearly three times the area of ...

  6. List of former German colonies - Wikipedia

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    These were German colonies established in the Pacific: German New Guinea, 1884–1919. Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914. Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914. German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885–1914. Bougainville Island, 1885–1914. Buka Island, 1885–1914. Choiseul Island, 1885–1900. Shortland Islands, 1885–1900.

  7. List of European colonies in Africa - Wikipedia

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    German colonies in Africa, 1914. German South West Africa, 1884 to 1915. German West Africa, 1884 to 1915. Togoland, 1884 to 1916. Kamerun, from 1884 to 1916. Kapitaï and Koba, 1884 to 1885. Mahinland, March 11, 1885 to October 24, 1885. German East Africa, 1885 to 1918. Witu Protectorate, 1885 to 1890.

  8. Decolonisation of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Scramble for Africa Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.

  9. German South West Africa - Wikipedia

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    Namibia. German South West Africa (German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 [1] until 1915, [2] though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. German rule over this territory was punctuated by numerous rebellions by its native African peoples, which ...