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1915
 
   
Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa      
1915
 
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February - British and French forces invade and capture the German colony of Cameroon      
1916
 
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British and French forces win full control of the German colonies of Togoland and Cameroon      
1919
 
   
More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar      
1919
 
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The League of Nations makes South West Africa (Namibia) a mandated British territory, to be administered by South Africa       
1920  May
 
     
League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine        
1921
 
    
The Young Kikuyu Association is formed in Kenya, to fight for African rights and the restoration of Kikuyu land       
1922
 
   
Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British in India as an agitator and is sentenced to six years in prison      
1923
 
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Rhodesia becomes a self-governing colony with political power exclusively in the hands of European settlers      
1924
 
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The British government takes on the administration of Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company