Spain and Portugal, Treaty of Tordesillas
Spain and Portugal
1884 - 1885. Goal was to divide up Africa between all the European nations except for Switzerland.
Because at the time European nations were so powerful they were able to do whatever they wanted.
protectorates
Protectorates
The Iron Curtain
The pact also secretly agreed to divide Poland and other parts of eastern Europe between the two powers.
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.
* Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed to form a United Nations * How to divide up Berlin between the Allies * Stalin agreed to enter war against Japan when Germany was defeated * Free elections in Poland
This was a meeting of European nations, held in Berlin, to divide the continent for colonization. The US did not attend, as it was not interested.
At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 the European nations decided on how they would divide up the ownership of Central Africa to avoid fighting over it. The conference didn't actually approve the territorial claims of the European nations, but they did agree on a set of rules to avoid conflict in partitioning of the region.