ColonisationThe 1930s

Colonisation in the 1930s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged colonisation — the establishment, administration and ending of colonial rule, narrowed to the 1930s — 8 of them, drawn from 8 nations, running from 1930 to 1939. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
8
Nations
8
Earliest
1930
Latest
1939
Africa
6
Asia
2

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Africa

    South Sudan

    The Southern Policy formalised

    A government memorandum directs administrators to develop the south as a distinct bloc, favouring local languages and English over Arabic and limiting northern contact.

    Era: The Condominium and the Southern Policy

    Sources: British policy in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the north–south divide · Africa at LSE, London School of Economics, History of South Sudan · Wikipedia

  2. Africa

    Burkina Faso

    Upper Volta partitioned

    The colony is dismembered for economic reasons and divided among Côte d'Ivoire, French Sudan and Niger.

    Era: Conquest and the Colony of Upper Volta

    Sources: French Upper Volta · Wikipedia, Background Notes: Burkina Faso · U.S. Department of State

  3. Africa

    Rwanda

    Ethnic identity cards introduced

    Belgium issues identity cards classifying every Rwandan as Hutu, Tutsi or Twa, fixing a once-fluid social distinction into a rigid, inherited racial category.

    Era: German and Belgian Rule

    Sources: Divided by Ethnicity · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Outreach Programme on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda — Historical Background · United Nations, Indangamuntu 1994: The role of the identity card in the genocide · Prevent Genocide International (Jim Fussell)

  4. Africa

    Libya

    Creation of Italian Libya

    Governor Italo Balbo merges Tripolitania and Cyrenaica into a single colony, Italian Libya, reviving the classical name.

    Era: Italian Colonisation and the Resistance

    Sources: Italian colonization of Libya · Wikipedia

  5. Africa

    Mauritania

    Completion of the conquest

    After decades of resistance by the desert emirates and nomadic tribes, French military control over the far north of Mauritania is finally consolidated in the 1930s.

    Era: French Conquest and Pacification

    Sources: Mauritania · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Mauritania · Wikipedia

  6. Africa

    Somalia

    Italian Somaliland joins Italian East Africa

    After Fascist Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland is merged into the new colony of Italian East Africa; Britain takes control of the region during the Second World War, holding both Somalilands by 1941.

    Era: Colonial Partition and the Dervish Resistance

    Sources: Italian Somaliland · Wikipedia, Somalia (country and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  7. Asia

    Yemen

    Aden becomes a Crown Colony

    The port of Aden, previously governed as part of British India, was made a separate Crown Colony, with the surrounding territories organised as the Aden Protectorate.

    Era: Ottomans, Britain and the Port of Aden

    Sources: Aden: Yemen, Map, Population and Facts · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  8. Asia

    South Korea

    Forced labor and wartime mobilization

    As the Pacific War expands, Japan conscripts hundreds of thousands of Koreans for forced labor and military service and coerces women into sexual slavery.

    Era: Japanese Colonial Rule

    Sources: Korea Under Japanese Rule · Encyclopaedia Britannica