COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Question
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Germany lost those colonies after World War I.
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Germany lost those colonies after World War II.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rwanda was only a German colony for a short period of time, however. With the German empire’s defeat in World War I Rwanda became absorted into the Belgian colonial empire as part of a mandate from the League of Nations (later United Nations).
Detailed explanation-2: -Belgium controlled several territories and concessions during the colonial era, principally the Belgian Congo (modern DRC) from 1908 to 1960 and Ruanda-Urundi (modern Rwanda and Burundi) from 1922 to 1962.
Detailed explanation-3: -German East Africa, which had suffered so much in the war, now proved a contentious prize. British interests dominated and most of the colony went to Britain as a mandate.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the First World War and Germany’s defeat, it ceded the territory to Belgium. Both Germans and Belgians ruled Burundi and Rwanda as a European colony known as Ruanda-Urundi and have never been under common rule until the time of European colonisation.