Consequences. Where might we find the shadows of the First World War? Immediate Shadow 1. Collapse of Empires. Three European and One Middle Eastern Empires dismantled at the end of the First World War...
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Consequences. Where might we find the shadows of the First World War? Immediate Shadow 1. Collapse of Empires. Three European and One Middle Eastern Empires dismantled at the end of the First World War https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/jul/23/a-global-guide-to-the-first-world-war- interactive-documentary German Empire. On the eve of the first world war, the German empire was the youngest of the European powers. It’s creator was Otto von Bismarck, who had started the process of unifying Germany at the end of the 19th century, to form the new Reich. A new empire, it started late in its conquest of overseas territories, "scrambling for Africa" to acquire only small pieces of land: German South West Africa (now Namibia), German East Africa (now Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi), and Cameroon and Togoland plus a few islands in the Pacific, particularly Samoa, and a few cities in China (Tsingtao, Quasi Colony in Shandong). Between 1870 and 1914 Germany underwent rapid industr
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