Nationalist Movements
A country in which one nation governs itself is known as this.
Nation-state
National unification movements in these TWO countries significantly disrupted the balance of power in Europe.
Italy and Germany
The Industrial Revolution and growth of factories created a greater need for these two things.
New resources and new markets
The drive for this material led to forced labor, slavery, and crimes against humanity in the Congo.
Rubber
This country entered into imperialism very late, but managed to turn into a continental superpower by modernizing and industrializing.
Japan
The red-shirted leader who led rebels to conquer southern Italy, but gave it up to the northern King of Sardinia in order to unify the nation.
Garibaldi
The competition over balance of power continued to play out in territory around the world in this age that lasted from 1850 to 1914.
Imperialism
European countries claimed that imperialism would bring this to their colonies.
Civilization
The “jewel in the crown” of the British Empire.
India
The construction of this form of transportation in many European colonies was one of the only benefits to come out of imperialism, as it created better connection between regions.
Railroads
The Greeks declared their independence from this empire and formed their own nation-state.
Ottoman Empire
This 1884 meeting attempted to bring the balance of power to the colonization of Africa.
Berlin Conference
The belief that the number of colonies a country possessed was a measure of their people's glory was mainly driven by this "-ism".
Nationalism
This military conflict between Britain and China occurred over the illegal smuggling of drugs that caused addiction among the Chinese people.
Opium Wars
This Chinese resistance movement was a failure, but laid the foundation for Chinese nationalism and future revolutions against foreign influence.
The proclamation of this new nation-state in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles created bad blood that would last for decades.
German Empire
This Mediterranean empire had already been struggling for centuries before nationalist movements sent it into further decline.
Ottoman Empire
The competition for colonies was another way of creating this balance among the European countries.
Balance of Power or Power
This Russian military conflict in the 1800s was the FIRST sign that Russia needed to modernize in order to survive as a major world power.
Crimean War
The drawing of borders in Africa without regard to this during the age of imperialism has led to continued conflicts in the region through the modern day.
Ethnic groups
The policy enacted by the Russian Empire in an attempt to control nationalist groups by banning their languages and cultures.
Russification
Nationalist movements caused this empire to divide into 2 sections and give itself this new name.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
The application of biological theory of evolution to the areas of race and society led to this justification for imperialism.
Social Darwinism
Japan defeated both China and Russia in order to maintain exclusive control over this colony.
Korea
In most colonized areas, the destruction of this in favor of "superior" European ideas was one of the major negative effects of imperialism.
Culture or Way of Life