text: 1) see question 3, add a few wars (like the Prussian-French war of 1870)\n2) the USA and Germany. The UK was down to a third place by then.\n3) the forming of two powerblocks, with a semi-cold war, along with an arms race. \n4) mostly raw materials\n5) A good example can be found in Turkey, wich was devided in different manditorial areas after WW I. \n6) direct control means military and governmental control. Indirect control is more political and economical of nature.\n7) native in...the USA? sorry, can't answer that one\n9) to the modernisation of Japan. It put the emperor back in place.