The powers processing the largest colonial empires on the eve of WWI were...???

Question

A. Great Britain and France

B. Italy and Portugal

C. Belgium and the Dutch

D. the US and Germany

Answer 1

The U.S. was not really a colonial power at all. "Colonial" implies  deliberate rule of a larger power over a smaller one, and the installation of a foreign ruling body over a subject people. The U.S. had foreign possessions (Hawaii & Puerto Rico, notably) but it did not literally control them in the same sense that England controlled India, at the time.

Germany had very few colonial possessions at all, which was one of the reasons why it went to war in the first place. That was partly Germany's fault, because it did not fully unify until 1871 (roughly the same time that Italy unified), by which time most of the good prospects for colonies were already taken.

The true colonial powers at the time of World War I were France, England, and Portugal.

Answer 2

A. has to be Britain as a COLONIAL power for sure

Answer 3

Positive that it is A

Answer 4

A - Think about it...Britain had India, half of Africa, Australia,Canada,

      most of the Carribian, and

      a ton of scattered islands in the Mediterranean and  Pacific.

      France had much of Africa, and Indochina.