Definition of calcium channel blocker. : any of a class of drugs (such as verapamil) that prevent or slow the influx of calcium ions into smooth muscle cells and are used especially to treat some forms of angina pectoris and some cardiac arrhythmias.
Most of Germany's colonies were occupied by its enemies in the first weeks of World War I, German South-West Africa surrendered in 1915, Kamerun in 1916 and German East Africa only in 1918 by end of the war.Germany's colonial empire was officially confiscated with the Treaty of Versailles after her defeat in the war.erman South West Africa was taken under mandate by the Union of South Africa. In the Pacific, Japan gained Germany's islands north of the equator (the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, the Palau Islands) and Kiautschou in China.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, especially after 1885, colonization of Africa has become so widespread that is called race for Africa ; virtually the entire continent (except ostavshihsja independent Ethiopia and Liberia) to 1900 was divided between a number of European powers: Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, their old colonies retained and enhanced Spain and Portugal.