Who was the American commodore to sail into the Japanese harbor of Tokyo in order to get the Japanese to trade with the U.S.?
Who is Matthew Perry
100
The canal that links the Mediterranean and Red Seas.
What is the Suez Canal?
100
This country was headed by Queen Liliuokalani until the U.S. took it over.
What is Hawaii?
100
This event was stared by the secret groups known as the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
100
In order for this canal to be built, this country had to be "created" first.
What is Panama?
200
Who was the American president instrumental in getting the Panama Canal built as well as reminding the Europeans of the Monroe Doctrine?
What was Teddy Roosevelt?
200
When the U.S. defeated the Spanish during the Spanish-American war, the U.S. gained control of Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and one other country.
What are the Philippines?
200
This country fought Britain during the Opium Wars.
What is China?
200
This event pitted Dutch farmers who used guerrilla tactics against what was then the world's most powerful army.
What is the Boer War?
200
This country was used as a conduit in order for the Japanese to enter China.
What is Korea?
300
The rulers of Japan at the time the U.S. sailed in Tokyo Harbor.
Who are Shoguns?
300
French Indochina consisted of some or all of the present-day countries of Cambodia, Laos, and
What is Vietnam?
300
The Boers and the English fought over this present-day country.
What is South Africa?
300
In order to prevent China from being colonized by many countries, the U.S. proposed a policy that allowed China to be open for merchants of all nations. What name was given to this policy?
What is the "Open-Door Policy".
300
Although India is a predominately Hindi country, it also has a some Catholics. The area of India that practices Catholicism was an important European port at one point. Name the area formerly controlled by Portugal that even today had a high concentration of Catholics.
What is Goa?
400
This group had ruled much of India until the British arrived. They were predominately Muslim.
Who were the Mughals
400
Although at one time it controlled many places throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans, by 1900, the Portuguese only had control of two areas in this region: Goa and...
What is Timor
400
The city in which European leaders met in order to agree about how Africa was to be divided.
What is Berlin?
400
The Sepoys in the Indian army turned against the British in what came to be known as "The Great Rebellion". The reason the soldiers started rebelling was...
The rifle cartridges were sealed with beef or pork.
400
Name the two non-European countries who were imperialists.
What are U.S. and Japan?
500
Men from this Indian religious group made the best soldiers for the British.
Who were the Sikhs?
500
What is the name of the only Japanese city that the Dutch had been able to enter (before Perry sailed into Tokyo Harbor).
What was Nagasaki?
500
In the 1800's, The Congo of Africa was colonized by this European country.
What is Belgium?
500
The name given to the war in which the U.S. gained control over Cuba, Guam, and other areas of the world.
What was the Spanish-American War?
500
The African tribe who the Boers defeated in order to establish the Dutch controlled areas of Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange Free State.