Its colonies were given to the Allies as ‘mandates’, to prepare them for independence Terms of the Treaty Germany was forced to accept the blame for starting the war under article 231 of the ...

The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa. By 1914 the German Empire has four colonies in East, West and South Africa. British and French forces invade Togoland the site of a key German ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace treaty ceremony, 1919 World War I left Germany in a complicated ... British, their colonies and dominions, and especially their American allies ...