The Netherlands was overrun by the Germans in 1940, and liberated by the Western Allied Forces 1945
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New Jersey became a colony before England took control of New Netherland. And this is how I know: England took control of New Netherland in 1664 and New Jersey became a Colony in 1702.
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The Spanish Empire conquered Mexico in 1521.
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the british took control of nigeria in the early 1900s. nigeria became its ows country in 1900s.
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Portugal took the lead.
The British (UK) controlled the majority of the Middle East, followed closely by the French.