Reflections on 1914 in 2014 All of Africa, with the exceptions of Liberia and Ethiopia, was under direct European rule. Most of southern and southeastern Asia was controlled by either the British(what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, and Sri Lanka), the French(what is now Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos) or the Dutch(Indonesia.) Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands were either parts of the British, American, or German empires for the most part, but Japan, which had rapidly industrialized in what was really self-defense a few decades earlier, had already begun its march to what it eventually became in World War II by defeating Russia in 1905 and conquering Korea in 1910. my.firedoglake/ohiogringo/2014/01/01/reflections-on-1914-in-2014/
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:54:06 +0000
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