that European nations would have to alert one another about any African territory they claimed.
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The countries that attended the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) were Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Danmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), the Ottomn Empire (Turkey), and the United States of America.
The Berlin Conference began in 1884 and it regulated European Colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! or The united states was invited to this conference but had no territorial claims in Africa.
It approved partition among European powers and agreed that future acquisitions could be gained by "effective occupation" - in other words force. What had previously been a matter largely of exploration and (usually predatory) treaty-making would henceforth be a process of armed conquest of the interior. For Congo, the conference formalised the brutal personal rule of King Leopold II and his private intermediaries.
Serbia, Romania, and Montenegro gained full independence.
Largely airplane accidents caused by operator error or marginal weather, overloading, etc. radar traffic-controlwas in its infancy and then under development. as far as known no planes were lost to flak fire in the Berlin Air Lift. anexcellent film on the operaiton was called the Big Lift starring one Paul Douglas, not related to the aircraft manufacturer, whose producrts wee certianly used in the lift.