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What was the name of the meeting at which European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa?
Berlin Conference
What did the Berlin conference accomplish?
It approved partition among European powers and agreed that future acquisitions could be gained by "effective occupation" - in other words force. What had previously been a matter largely of exploration and (usually predatory) treaty-making would henceforth be a process of armed conquest of the interior. For Congo, the conference formalised the brutal personal rule of King Leopold II and his private intermediaries.
What is the Berlin conference?
There are a number of things that the Berlin conference accomplished. The European nations came agreed on how to divide the African countries peacefully. The conference took place in 1885.
What were three conditions of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85?
The powers who met at the Berlin Conference to partition Africa agreed that each power would abide by the boundaries established at the Conference. Also, each power was responsible for effectively occupying their assigned territory, and civilizing their colonies.
What was the importance of the Berlin conference?
Berlin, Conference of, 1884-85, international meeting aimed at settling the problems connected with European colonies in Africa. At the invitation of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, representatives of all European nations, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire met at Berlin to consider problems arising out of European penetration of W Africa. The stated purpose of the meeting was to guarantee free trade and navigation on the Congo and on the lower reaches of the Niger. In fact, the territorial adjustments made among the powers were the important result. The sovereignty of Great Britain over S Nigeria was recognized. The claims of the International Association, a private corporation controlled by King Leopold II of Belgium, were more or less recognized; these applied to the greater part of the Congo. These territorial awards ignored French claims to parts of the Congo and of Nigeria and the historical claim of Portugal to the mouth of the Congo. The attempts to guarantee free trade and the neutrality of the region in wartime and to set up rules for future colonial expansion in Africa were hailed, but soon the agreements proved too vague to be workable.
What major decision was agreed to at the Wannsee conference?
The Wannsee Conference was concerned with organizing the practical arrangements of the 'Final Solution'. The decision to kill the European Jews had already been taken, and at a higher level.
What was the conference where Soviets promised free elections in Poland?
"He agreed at the Potsdam Conference. " ** Actually this is incorrect. Stalin agreed to hold free elections at the Yalta Conference.
After what conference was it agreed to divide Occupied Germany into four sectors?
potsdam conference
How did yalta conference shape the postwar world?
divied Germany into four zones, agreed to allow free elections in Poland and other eastern European coutries now.
How was the search for colonies in Africa a source of conflict among the major powers?
Sub-Saharan Africa was the last major area colonized by Europeans. There was remarkably little conflict among the major European powers during the rapid colonization of Africa, compared to the extensive wars over colonization in the Americas and Asia. This is in large part due to the Berlin Treaty of 1885, at which the major European powers agreed to a policy of 'notify and occupy', a coordinated and cooperative policy which resulted in the colonization of almost the entire continent in less than two decades.
What was agreed at the Munich Conference in 1938?
The Munich conference was a meeting of four European countries (Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany). The agreement allowed Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. Czechoslovakia was not present at this conference, and it should be noted that this land contained key heavy industries, as well as 3 million Germans.
What was the 1942 conference call that established the Final Solution?
The Wannsee Conference, but it is not agreed that it established the Final Solution.
