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The Second Samoan Civil War was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain, located in the South Pacific Ocean. At the war's conclusion in 1899, the United States was granted the eastern section of the islands, the Germans were granted the western section of the islands, and the British were given other Pacific island chains formerly belonging to Germany.

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  • The Second Samoan Civil War was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain, located in the South Pacific Ocean. At the war's conclusion in 1899, the United States was granted the eastern section of the islands, the Germans were granted the western section of the islands, and the British were given other Pacific island chains formerly belonging to Germany.
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  • Second Samoan Civil War
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  • Samoa
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • German Empire
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  • Mata'afans
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  • * Britain withdraws claim in exchange for concessions in the Solomon Islands
  • * Germany acquiresGerman Samoa
  • * Mata'afa Iosefo becomes paramount chief of Samoa
  • * Partitioning of the Samoan archipelago
  • * United States acquiresAmerican Samoa
  • *Tripartite Convention
  • Compromise;
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