Causes of Imperialism
This revolution started in Europe and led to Europeans to seek natural resources and new markets to sell their manufactured goods
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This period of time describes when European countries frantically went to imperialize Africa.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
The Boxer Rebellion was an effort to reduce foreign influence in this country.
What is China?
The policy of aggressively building up armed forces before WWI is called this.
What is militarism?
This group of people took the place of many men that went to fight.
Who are women?
This ideology, based on the belief in "survival of the fittest," justified European imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
This 1884-1885 meeting led to the division of Africa among European powers
What is the Berlin Conference?
The British flooded this drug into China due to a trade imbalance.
What is opium?
Before WWI, European powers believed this system of agreements would maintain a balance of power
What are alliances?
Governments used this strategy to encourage citizens to support the war effort.
What is propaganda?
The ideology Europeans held that they needed to cilivize other races of people.
What is the White Man's Burden?
Europeans built these to extract raw materials from Africa.
What are railroads?
A type of imperialist control in which the imperial power has trade benefits but does not fully control the territory.
What is a sphere of influence?
This long-term cause of WWI involved competition for colonies around the world.
What is imperialism?
This describes the civilian, non-fighting, population during WWI.
What is the homefront?
These are resources that imperialists wanted acquire from colonies to make industrialized goods
What are natural resources / raw materials?
This African nation successfully resisted European imperial rule under Menelik II.
What is Ethiopia?
This Indian uprising against British rule was sparked by concerns over rifle cartridges.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion
Extreme pride and loyalty to one’s nation, which fueled tensions before WWI, is called this.
What is nationalism?
New weapons, such as machine guns and poison gas, contributed to this battlefield condition where neither side is winning.
What is a stalemate?
Mr. Stern's birthday is in this month
What is May?
People from this continent were not invited to the Berlin Conference.
What is Africa?
This company acted as an imperialist force in India before the British government took control.
What is the British East India Company?
This event in 1914 is considered the immediate spark of World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This term describes a war in which all resources are devoted to winning the war and no one is safe.
What is total war?