Question

What effect of firrst world war have on colonial possessions of industrialised countries

Answer 1

after the world war 1, the treaty of Versailles was held in Russia on Jan 28, 1919
this humiliated the central powers and this treaty gave all rights to allied powers to impose terms and conditions on the central powers both in monetary and territorial terms
this territorial terms says that the colonies of Germany,etc are lost to France and UK
this largely affected the industrialised nations as the trade was stopped as the colonies were ruled by other nations

Answer 2

Answer with Explanation:

The Central Powers possessed colonies before the great war and post war, they have lost them to the allied powers. Allied powers already had huge colonies and they possessed them as it is, and moreover they also gained colonies from Germany, many of them were occupied during the war itself and were divided among the entente , post war. Togoland, Kamerun(Now Cameroon),German South-West Africa(Now Namibia), German East Africa, German New Guinea, Western Samoa, Port of Qingdao was invaded by Japan. All of these colonies were distributed among The Allied Powers and Germany was left with no colonies.

It was France which gained a major part of Germany after the First World War. The German territory to the west of Rhine was to be occupied by the Allied troops for 15 years. Germany lost Alsace-Lorraine to France and Schleswig to Denmark. Coal mines in Saar, Germany, were given to France for 15 years. German lost her all overseas colonies to the victorious nations.