Radio Rootz' This Day in History

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After four months of bickering between colonial powers, the Algeciras Conference was finally over. The purpose of the conference was to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis; an international crisis over the colonial state of Morocco, in which Germany, France, Britain, and Spain were all fighting to protect their political and financial investments in and around Morocco. At the conference, the US Ambassador to Italy was assigned to solve the dispute, and four months later a final agreement was signed, transforming Morocco into a complex battleground for various European powers and imperial interests. Sadly, this is one of many cases in which super-power nations get together to dissect, divide, and redefine other nations to serve their own economic interests.