Japan lost land in World War 2 as they lost the war. During the war they took over parts of China, Korea and a large number of islands across the Pacific including the Philippines.
US bases were stationed in the Philippines. Japan took the place in '42, then lost it to the allies in '45.
The Seven Year War AKA The French and Indian war...the French lost.
They lost.
The US took control of Puerto Rico and the Philippines as a result of the Spanish-American War, when the US fought Spain in a short war.
The Philippines was a Spanish owned colony from 1521-1898, after the Spanish lost the Spanish-American war the Americans took over. President William McKinley decided to colonize because it was a good point of trade with China.
Over 7,000 Philippine servicemen were deployed to the Korean War (1950-1953); over a hundred lost their lives during the conflict. See: "Filipino Soldiers in the Korean War."
Filipino rebels were disappointed when the United States took control of the Philippines because they expected to gain independence from Spanish rule after collaborating with the US during the Spanish-American War. However, the US did not grant them immediate independence and instead established colonial rule over the Philippines, sparking the Philippine-American War.
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America reacted to Spanish ruling in Cuba, and took control over Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines
The Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico and Cuba which was quickly given it independence.
Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantines Empire, was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. No one country took over the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman Empire lost Algeria and Tunisia to the French in 1830 and 1881, Egypt to the British in 1879 and Libya to the Italians in 1912. The empire collapsed when it lost the First World War. The British took over Iraq, Jordan and Palestine. The French took over Syria and Lebanon.