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In 1901 Nigeria loses its independence and becomes a British
protectorate
true or false
true
In 1905, after the second Boer War, the Transvaal no longer
governs Swaziland and it becomes a British protectorate.
True or False?
False. In 1902
In 1903 Burundi is formally annexed and administered by ______.
By Germany. Although nominally part of the German colony of German East Africa since the 1890s, from 1911 Rwanda is administered directly by the
German colonial authorities.
In 1903 the Seychelles becomes a British Crown Colony in its
own right. It had previously been part of the British Crown Colony of Mauritius.
True or false?
True
What new name was given to the British Central Africa in 1907?
Nyasaland
What Union was created in 1910 from the
British colonies of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal?
Union of South Africa
When was the Comoros Islands annexed by
France and made into a French colony, having been a French protectorate
since the 1840s?
1912
The Naj’d, stronghold of the Wahhabi movement, is conquered from ________ between 1899 and 1912 by the Wahhabi leader, Ibn Saud.
Saud conquers Riyadh in 1902 and is master of the Naj’d by 1906. On the eve
of the First World War, Saud conquers the Al-Ahsa region from the Ottoman
Turks and extends control over other areas.
the
Ottoman Empire
Between 1912 and 1913, following the fighting between
Italy and the Ottoman Empire over Tripoli, Italy steadily increased its control
over what region?
Italian North Africa
In 1894 British East Africa becomes a British
protectorate. It was originally a commercial venture by the British East Africa
Company. After the addition of various provinces the area is renamed ________
in 1914.
Uganda
when did Australia gain dominion status from Britain and became
a self-governing colony?
1901
In 1901, following negotiations at the end of the Spanish-
American War, ________ are occupied by the US.
the Philippines
In ______Siam gives up claims to parts of Cambodia. Two years later Siam
surrenders the dominion of Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, and Terengganu to Britain.
These areas are absorbed into the British colony of Malaya. Siam maintains its
independence despite colonisation of the surrounding areas.
1907
In 1910 Korea is annexed by Japan. This follows the ________ and __________.
Russo-Japanese
war and occupation by Japan.
In 1911 _________ declares its independence from Imperial China.
Mongolia
From the late 18th century Tibet was effectively part of China, despite
much personal autonomy exercised by Tibetan local authorities. In ___ Tibet
proclaims its independence, a declaration that is not recognised by the Chinese government.
1913
When did China re-established central control in Tibet after it’s declaration of independence in the early 20th century?
The central Chinese government collapses after 1913, and the
civil and Japanese wars of the 1930s and 1940s prevent action being taken to
restore Chinese authority. Significantly, China did not renounce any claim to
Tibet. In 1950 Communist China invades to re-establish central control despite
the nominal independence of Tibet from Chinese affairs for 37 years.
In 1914 the German colony, Nauru Island, is captured by
Australia.
True or false
true
In 1914 the Germany colony, ___________, is
occupied by Japan.
Paulau (also spelt Pelew)
In 1903 ______breaks away from Columbia and forms an
independent state.
Panama
In 1902, following the defeat of Spanish forces in the Spanish-
American War, ______ gains independence from Spain.
Cuba
In 1912 America occupies the independent state of _______.
American intervention is officially to support the _______ in a civil war.
Nicaragua; government
During the 19th century much of ethnic _____ territory had been
ceded by the Ottoman Empire to the bordering Slavic states. In 1912 uprisings
in the Balkan region led to the foundation of _______ as an independent state.
In 1913 the surrounding states of Montenegro, Serbia and Greece seize large
parts of ________.
all blanks contain the same state
Albania
Between 1912 and 1913 Serbia seizes large parts of Macedonia
during the widespread fighting in the Balkans region.
True or false?
True
Between 1912 and 1913 the Ottoman Empire loses nearly
all European territory to what four states?
Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Albania.
In 1914 British and French forces expel the Germans from
Togoland. In 1916, following the successful invasion by British and French
forces in 1914, the British and French unite the colony of Togoland.
True or false?
False.
British and French divide the colony
In ___ the Union of South Africa occupies the German
colony, German South West Africa.
1915
In 1916 _____ forces occupy Burundi.
Belgium
Between 1916 and 1918 Belgian and British Imperial
Forces occupy _______ East Africa.
German
In 1914 Australia captures the German colony of New Guinea and
renames it ______.
Papua
In 1914 _____ invades the German colony on the Caroline
Islands.
Japan
In 1914 _____ occupies the German colony of the Marshall
Islands
Japan
In 1914 ________ seizes German Samoa
New Zealand
In 1916 the British protectorate of the Gilbert
Islands joins the British protectorate of the Ellice Islands. The result is_________________?
the
crown colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
In 1915, following an uprising and the death of the dictator Guillaume
Sam, America invades and occupies ______.
Haiti
America occupies the Dominican Republic in ______?
1916
In 1917, because of their strategic position alongside the
approach to the Panama Canal, Denmark sells the Danish West Indies (islands
of St John, St Croix and St Thomas) to America for $25 million and they
become__________.
the US Virgin Islands
Following the collapse of Russia after the 1917 revolution, the
Ukraine declares itself independent.
True or False?
true
In 1918 the regions of the ________and ______declare
their independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and form the Republic
of _________.
Czech lands and Slovakia; Czechoslovakia
In ___ Poland declares its independence from Germany and the
Russian Empire.
1918
In ___ the province of Finland declares its independence from the
Russian Empire.
1917
To avoid being occupied by Soviet forces, the region of
_______ votes to be transferred from the collapsing Russian empire to
Romania in 1918.
Bessarabia
In 1914 the British declare ________, previously a province of the Ottoman
Empire, a British protectorate.
Egypt
In 1914 Italy completed the annexation of______and
renamed it Italian North Africa.
Libya
Control of _____shifts from the Ottoman Empire to Britain in 1916.
Qatar
In ______ the German colony is divided into British and French
Cameroon.
1919
In 1919 the areas not taken by Belgium (which controlled
Rwanda and Burundi) are removed from German control. These are
administered by Britain as ________ for the League of Nations, and
afterwards for the United Nations.
Tanganyika
In 1919 the League of Nations granted the Rwandan region
as a mandate to Belgium. It is renamed ________.
Ruanda-Urundi
In 1920 the regions of British East Africa that were not incorporated
into Uganda are renamed _____
Kenya
In 1920 the League of Nations grants ________ the
mandate to administer South West Africa
South Africa
In 1923 the British government takes over administration of the
British South Africa Companies territories that formed the region of Rhodesia.
Southern Rhodesia becomes a self-governing colony and Northern Rhodesia
becomes a________.
protectorate
After the collapse of the Hapsburg regime at the
end of the First World War, the empire is broken up into: ______, ______, ______, ______, ______.
Austria (1918),
Hungary (1918), Czechoslovakia (1918), Yugoslavia and Poland (1919).
In 1918 _____, _____, and _____ declare their
independence. In 1919 Memel is created from parts of East Prussia, and in
1920 their borders are set by treaty
Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
Fighting between Poland and the Ukraine during 1918 and 1919
resulted in Poland gaining territory. In the aftermath of the fighting the
Ukraine suffers another revolution and is incorporated into the USSR in _____.
1922
Between 1918 and 1920 the state of _________ is formed from parts
of Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires.
Yugoslavia
In 1919, with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the treaty
of St-Germain sets the borders for the state of _____.
Austria
In 1919 Germany’s colonial possessions are confiscated at
Versailles. _______ and _____ are returned to France, and West Prussia
(including Poznan and Danzig) and parts of Upper Silesia are given to ______.
In the peace terms, direct votes resulted in the transfer of Eupen, Malmedy,
and Moresnet to ______, and North Schleswig to Denmark. The Saar is placed
under French administration for 15 years. ________ is demilitarised and the
Rhineland occupied by Allied forces
Alsace and Lorraine;
Poland;
Belgium;
Germany
In 1919 France regains Alsace and Lorraine from Germany and gains
control of the coal-mining region of the Saarland for 15 years under the
Versailles Treaty.
True or false?
True
In ____ Belgium gains the Eupen, Malmedy and Moresnet regions
from Germany under the Versailles Treaty
1919
In 1919 _______ gains North Schleswig from Germany under the
Versailles Treaty
Denmark
In 1919 ______ is created from parts of East Prussia and Germany.
Memel
Poland is resurrected by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The Treaty
of Riga in 1921 returns former Polish territory incorporated in Prussia/Germany
and Russia since the 18th century. In order to allow access to the sea for
trade, the __________ is established across parts of eastern Germany,
leaving the city of Danzig and province of East Prussia isolated from the rest of
Germany.
‘Polish Corridor’
In 1920 Russia recognises _______ independence in the Treaty of
Tartu.
Finnish
In 1920 borders of the new state of Hungary (formed from parts of
the Austro Hungarian Empire) are formalised by the treaty of _______.
Trianon
In 1922 Britain grants the southern counties of Ireland dominion
status. They are renamed __________.
the Irish Free State
In _____ Armenia declares independence from Russian and Ottoman
influence.
1918
In ____ both Turkey and the USSR invade Armenia, forcing it to
hand back all former Ottoman territory. Remaining parts of Armenia are
absorbed by the USSR.
1920
In 1918 Azerbaijan declares independence from the Russian
Empire, but in ____ is over-run by Soviet forces and absorbed as a Soviet
Socialist Republic.
1920
In 1918 Georgia declares itself independent from the Russian
Empire. In _____ it is invaded by the Red Army and absorbed as a Soviet
Socialist Republic.
1921
In 1918, after the collapse of Ottoman authority in the region, the
Kingdom of Yemen is created from _____.
northern Yemen
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919, the Ottoman
protectorate, _______, is taken under British protection
Kuwait
In 1920, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, _______ is
made into a League of Nations mandate to be administered by Britain.
Palestine
In 1920 the League of Nations hands over the Levant region of the
former Ottoman Empire. France administers the region as ____________.
Greater Syria
In 1920, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Trans-
Jordan region is made into a League of Nations mandate to be administered by
_______.
Britain
Between 1920 and 1922, following the collapse of the Ottoman
Empire and internal protest at the terms of the initial peace settlement, a
nationalist movement led by Kemal Ataturk deposes the rump Ottoman
regime. Following the 1922 Chanak crisis, the boundaries of modern day
______ are set with the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.
Turkey
Between ___ and ____ Ibn Saud seizes the Hejaz region
1924 and 1925
In 1921 the British Mandate of _______ is created from
the Ottoman provinces of Basra and Baghdad. The Ottoman province of Mosul
is added in 1926.
Mesopotamia
In 1925 Egypt gains independence from Britain.
True or false?
False. In 1922
In 1926 ______ is formed from the French Mandate of Greater
Syria and made into a French colony.
Lebanon
In 1927 ______, the Italian colony in North Africa, is split
into Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania
Libya
As part of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, _______________ and its League of Nations mandated territory, South West Africa,
effectively gain independence from Britain.
the Union of
South Africa
In 1936 the existing Italian colonies of Italian Somaliland, Eritrea
and the newly occupied Abyssinia, merge to form __________.
Italian East Africa
The 1931 Statute of Westminster recognises _________ independence
and forms the basis for later negotiations over the legal position of British
Dominions.
Canadian
In 1933 the US ceases to occupy \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ and allows it to function as an independent state.
Nicaragua
In 1934 the US ends its occupation of _____, allowing it to function as an
independent state again.
Haiti
In 1931, following the Mukden incident, _______ invades and
occupies Manchuria.
Japan
The British governed _______ through their Indian colonial
administration until 1937, when it becomes a self-governing British colony.
Burma
In 1937 the existing British colony on the ________ is
added to the British Crown colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
Phoenix Islands
During 1936 ______ resumes control of the areas on either side of the
Dardanelles (previously de-militarised at the end of the First World War).
Turkey
In 1937 the Irish Free State renames itself ____ and begins to
negotiate its dominion status
Eire
In 1938, following pressure from Germany to admit Nazi Party
members into the government, the government in Austria collapses. Germany
absorbs Austria into the Third Reich - ___________.
the ‘Anschluss’.
__________ is forced to cede Sudetenland to Germany as
part of the 1938 Munich agreement. This is due to intense pressure from
Germany, the threat of war, and the failure of Britain and France to oppose
German aggression.
Czechoslovakia
In 1939, although nominally an autonomous region of _______,
Memel is annexed by Germany
Lithuania
In 1939 Italy invades and annexes ________.
Albania
