Did the Age of Imperialism end in 1918?

But if we were to go the future say five centuries from now, we're likely to see the years 1918 to 1950 or maybe 1960 as the years in which colonial lands were given independence. read more

In short, 1918 is not the year the Age of Imperialism came to an end, but the start of the end of it. read more

But not in the same way as the actual Age of Imperialism. World War I was really considered the last great Imperial war. It was the result of greedy Imperialists trying to exert too much influence in countries that they hold (basically, the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Balkans) and other Empires seeing it as an oppurtunity to pick up some land (basically, how the Russians reacted to the Austro-Hungarian Empire). read more