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What events took place in the actual colonization?
In 1910, France contained their five territories in equatorial Africa. Although they didn’t contain Cameroon until after World War 1 in 1920. In 1911 the Agadir Crisis resulted in France surrendering parts of Cameroon to the Germans, but the land was returned after Germany’s defeat in World War 1. In 1910, the French imperial colonies in equatorial Africa had comprised a total area of 969,112 square miles, and in 1920, Chad was separated from a colony to make up a part of French equatorial Africa. During the late 1920s and early 1930s there was a social and political anti-colonial movement called the Societe Amicale des Originaires. This movement seeked French citizenship for the territory’s inhabitants. It included 13,000 followers, two protest letters to the French government in 1928, and in 1930 the movement sent two diplomatic agents or envoys to French Equatorial Africa on a fundraising tour. Andre Matsoua led this movement and founded the association. In 1940, during World War 2, the Societe Amicale des Originaires rallied to the Free French Forces (led by Felix Eboue) who were individuals or military units who joined the resistance organization in 1940 in London against Axis Powers. Axis Powers was an alignment of nations that fought in World War 2 against the allied forces. It promoted the alliance as a part of the revolutionary process aimed at breaking efforts of ‘world domination’ or hegemony and defending countries and civilization from communism. In 1946-1958 the territories voted to become autonomous within the French Community and the federation was dissolved which included the Societe Amicale des Originaires. In 1959, the countries in French Equatorial Africa formed a new association called the Union of Central African Republics right before becoming fully independent countries in 1960.
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