How did the First World War affect the imperialist global system?

WWI saw a sharp shift in the global imperialist system. Germany lost its overseas colonies as part of the Versailles Treaty. Early nationalist movements in the developing world, such as Ho Chi Minh's in Vietnam, began to take root. While it would take awhile for these colonial independence movements to bear fruit, it is hard to imagine them starting without Wilson's rhetoric about self-determination for the people of Europe. WWI severely weakened the armies of Europe to the point that they could not establish large garrisons of troops in their colonial possessions. While the pre-war period was marked by British warfare in Sudan and French warfare in North Africa, the period between the wars passed with little consequence for the colonies of the great powers. Britain and France also divided the Middle East into protectorates and mandates in order to punish the Ottoman Empire. This led to resentment from the people who lived there, who felt their actions in the war gave them a right to some self-determination. These mandates were drawn without any sense of the religious and cultural differences in the region. Nations such as Iraq and Syria still deal with the aftereffects of the Sykes-Picot agreement, which in 1916 created spheres of influence for Britain and France in the Middle East.
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