Imperialism- Africa
France and the UK
This European country controlled India until the mid-1900s.
The UK
Name 2 Chinese goods that Europeans wanted.
Silk, porcelain, tea
The Western Front of WWI was fought predominately in what country?
France
Name 3 new war technologies used during WWI.
U-Boats, battleships, chemical warfare, trenches, vickers machine gun, artillery, airplanes.
The leader of the Zulu tribe; ruthless and brilliant leader who conquered many nearby tribes.
Shaka
This is the obligation that Europeans felt to civilize indigenous peoples.
The White Man's Burden
Europeans spent more money buying Chinese goods than they sold. Europe had a trade ________ with China.
Deficit.
This event sparked the first World War.
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
This was the first country to declare war in WWI.
Austria-Hungary against Serbia.
In the Boer War, the British fought descendants of which settlers?
Dutch
The Sepoy Rebellion
This is the name of the group who rose up against the "foreign devils" in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
Righteous Harmonious Fists
Which German attack provoked Britain to go to war?
Attacking Belgium.
The two alliances that formed prior to WWI?
Triple Entente & The Triple Alliance
The King who owned the Belgian Congo and committed all types of atrocities against the native Africans that lived there in order to harvest rubber.
King Leopold II
When Egyptians became one of the main producers of cotton, what did India begin to produce a lot of?
Opium/Poppies
This treaty was established after the Opium Wars. It granted the British extraterritoriality in China and certain indemnities.
The Treaty of Nanjing
This was a British liner torpedoed by a German U-boat and was part of the reason the U.S. joined WWI.
Lusitania
This plan assumed that Germany would fight a two-front war.
Schlieffen Plan
What was one of the major factors why Europeans failed to colonize Africa prior to industrialization?
1. Difficult geography 2. Resistance from existing kingdoms 3. Disease
Westernizing Indian children had what unforeseen consequence for the Europeans?
Creating feelings of Nationalism and causing them to start rebellions of their own.
This was the largest peasant rebellion in Chinese history. It was in response to high taxes, heavy government spending, and massive floods.
Taiping Rebellion
At what meeting did the Europeans create the Treaty of Versailles?
Paris Peace Conference
Dardanelles.