Reasons for Imperialism
This economic system motivated "old" imperial powers like Spain and Portugal to seek trade routes and natural resources in India (actually, the Americas).
What is mercantilism?
A revolt of the sepoy troops between (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of this subcontinent from a British fortune five hundred to the crown.
What is India?
Geo-politically the outcome of this war was massive. It led directly to the creation of the German Empire, Continental Europe's most powerful state with Berlin replacing Paris as the focal point of global politics.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
These tragic partners or "Dual Alliance" remained loyal throughout the entire war, losing large chunks of land and territories abroad. They would never be same... Actually, one annexed the other prior to World War II.
What is Germany and Austria?
These two wars were proof that Japan had arrived as a military power.
What is the Sino and Russo- Japanese Wars?
Industrialization spurred imperialism. A small nation like England lacked fertile soil and a large population. These two motivating factors led this industrial power to colonizing other parts of the world. Remember, the sun never sets on the British Empire...
What is new markets and raw materials?
By providing direct access to Asia and the East African coastline, the Suez greatly aided European powers in their projects of colonization. Having earlier captured other strategic ports, Britain used the Suez to strengthen its military grip over India.
What is Eygpt?
Germany is not looking to Prussia’s liberalism, but to its power; Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden may indulge liberalism, and for that reason no one will assign them Prussia’s role; Prussia has to coalesce and concentrate its power for the opportune moment, which has already been missed several times; Prussia’s borders according to the Vienna Treaties [of 1814-15] are not favorable for a healthy, vital state; it is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided – that was the big mistake of 1848 and 1849 – but by iron and blood.
What is Otto von Bismarck?
The Moroccan Crises were hotly contested diplomatic "agreements" between Germany and France over West-African Morocco. Germany eventually backed down, solidifying a diplomatic revolution between these two former enemies who fought for over 100 years during the Middle Ages.
What is France and Great Britain?
This term refers to all people of Slavic background uniting into one organization.
What is Pan-Slavism?
Imperialism was not only about money. Imperialists justified their actions through this groundbreaking evolutionary theory found in On the Origin of Species.
What is social-Darwinism?
On July 8, 1853, American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor of this capital city of this nation, seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Southeast Asia and the western world.
What is Japan?
Denmark's defeat to Prussia and Austria in the Second Schleswig War in 1864 meant that the Danish state lost these two German duchies.
What is Schleswig and Holstein?
The Three Emperor's League between Russia, Germany, and Austria was mainly over keeping the peace between Russia and Austria over this Southern European powder keg and the division of this empire on the decline. TWO ANSWERS.
What is the Balkans and Ottoman Empire?
German military minds had anticipated a two-front war against France and Russia dating back to the early 20th century. When implemented, the Schlieffen Plan would attack France through this nation, after a quick and swift victory; Germany would fight Russia. Unfortunately for them, WWI was a war of attrition with long periods of trench warfare.
What is Belgium?
Send forth the best ye breed—Go send your sons to exile-To serve your captives' need-To wait in heavy harness-On fluttered folk and wild—Your new-caught, sullen peoples,-Half devil and half child.
-Hymn to Imperialism (1898)
What is the White Man's Burden?
An anti-imperialist and anti-Christian uprising between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Boxers).
What is China?
The Austro-Prussian War (also known as this war) was a war fought between the Austrian Empire and its German allies, and Prussia with its German allies in 1866, that resulted in Prussian dominance in Germany. Austria would have to settle for Hungary.
What is the Seven Weeks War?
At this meeting, the European powers met to determine borders for their African possessions. This was considered the height of new imperialism.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This war opened five Chinese ports and granted Hong Kong to Great Britain. It ended with the Treaty of Nanking.
What is the First Opium War?
This Merriam Webster definition describes this power dynamic of the imperialism.
"a government which is endowed with the outward symbols of authority but in which direction and control are exercised by another power."
What is a puppet government?
Protectorate
Boers, Netherlands, Dutch, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Zulu, War, Apartheid, and the British.
What is South Africa?
By 1900, Germany only trailed these three nations in Gross Domestic Production.
What is Great Britain, China, and the U.S.?
After the Reinsurance Treaty was broken by these two nations, this nation allied with one of the two listed above to create a geographical alliance forcing the third nation in this story to be stuck in the middle.
What is Germany and Russia? What is France?
This nation was the first to declare war during what would become The Great War, or World War One.
What is Austria?