Germany was a colonial administrator in Cameroon, beginning with its 1884 claim on the Douala coastal region. Germany gradually expanded its control inland and called the territory Kamerun. Germany lost the Kamerun colony during World War I (1914–18), thus launching a period of British rule in two small portions and French rule in the remainder of the territory. These League of Nations mandates (later United Nations trusts) were referred to as French Cameroun and British Cameroons.
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