what countries did germany invade in africa?
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The six principal colonies of German Africa, along with native kingdoms and polities, were the legal precedents for the modern states of Burundi, Cameroon, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Togo.
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Germany attacked in the west on May 10, 1940. ... German Invasion of Western Europe, May 1940 - Photograph Belgium and the Netherlands surrendered in May. More than 300,000 French and British troops were evacuated from the beaches near Dunkirk (Dunkerque) across the English Channel to Great Britain.
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Between 1885 and 1914, Britain took nearly 30% of Africa's population under its control; 15% for France, 11% for Portugal, 9% for Germany, 7% for Belgium and 1% for Italy.
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Most notably, Germany had occupied parts of European Russia, Great Britain held Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Sevastopol, and the Crimea; France and Greece partly controlled Odessa; Italy and Great Britain took part in the invasion of the Russian Far East, and Finland had occupied the territory of Karelia.
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Germany's colonies included Togo, Cameroon, German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia), German East Africa (present-day Tanzania), three territories that are now in Papua New Guinea (Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the German Solomon Islands), and several territories in the Pacific: the Marshall ...
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Germany invades Poland. On this day in 1939, German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun.
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The principal powers involved in the modern colonisation of Africa are Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy. In nearly all African countries today, the language used in government and media is the one imposed by a recent colonial power.
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the Allied invasion of North Africa. the German invasion of the USSR. the Soviet victory at Stalingrad. the Allied victory at El Alamein.
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['Morocco - 1912, to France.', 'Libya - 1911, to Italy.', 'Fulani Empire - 1903, to France and the United Kingdom.', 'Swaziland - 1902, to the United Kingdom.', 'Ashanti Confederacy - 1900, to the United Kingdom.', 'Burundi - 1899, to Germany.', 'Kingdom of Benin - 1897, to the United Kingdom.', 'Bunyoro - 1897, to the United Kingdom.']
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Germany defeated and occupied Poland (attacked in September 1939), Denmark (April 1940), Norway (April 1940), Belgium (May 1940), the Netherlands (May 1940), Luxembourg (May 1940), France (May 1940), Yugoslavia (April 1941), and Greece (April 1941).
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Seven European countries held African colonies in 1914. Name the countries that held African colonies by 1914? Belgium, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Which two European countries were the biggest winners in the race to seize African colonies?
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["Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major defeat.", 'Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy to be launched.', 'Italy surrenders, but Germany takes over the battle.', 'British and Indian forces fight Japanese in Burma.']
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Germany attacked in the west on May 10, 1940. Initially, British and French commanders had believed that German forces would attack through central Belgium as they had in World War I, and rushed forces to the Franco-Belgian border to meet the German attack.
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['Belgium. Belgium was invaded by Germany in May 1940. ... ', 'Czech Republic. Czechoslovakia was formed after the First World War. ... ', 'France. France was one of the major European powers but was quickly defeated by Germany in the spring of 1940. ... ', 'Germany. ... ', 'Italy. ... ', 'Great Britain. ... ', 'Luxembourg. ... ', 'Poland.']
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Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939.
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Roosevelt that the U.S. abandon the Germany first strategy and take the offensive in the Pacific. ... In an attempt to pincer German and Italian forces, Allied forces (American and British Commonwealth) landed in Vichy-held French North Africa under the assumption that there would be little to no resistance.
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['World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. ... ', 'The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China).']