Editing Colonialism (section)

=== World War I ===
The [[World War I|First World War]] brought the European colonial empires into conflict with each other with the fight sustained by their colonial territories.<ref name=":6" />{{Rp|page=130}} War mobilization heightened colonial exploitation globally, sparking several anticolonial uprisings in response to forced conscription. Germany capitulated in large part due to the [[Blockade of Germany (1914–1919)|Allied sea blockade]] cutting off access to its overseas colonies, a disadvantage which German U-boats could not inflict on the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]]. The victorious Allies divided up the German colonial empire and much of the Ottoman Empire between themselves as [[League of Nations mandate]]s, grouping these territories into three classes according to how quickly it was deemed that they could prepare for independence. The empires of Russia and Austria collapsed in 1917–1918,<ref>G.M. Gathorne-Hardy, ''A Short History of International Affairs, 1920–1939'' (4th ed. 1950), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.260425/page/n1 online]</ref> and the [[Soviet empire]] emerged.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kassymbekova |first=Botakoz |title=How Western scholars overlooked Russian imperialism |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/24/how-western-scholars-overlooked-russian-imperialism |date=24 January 2023 |access-date=13 April 2023 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>