The Orient
Foreign policy supported by the use of threat of military force. Used in Western relations with Japan.
What is Gunboat diplomacy?
Term applied to WWI to capture the idea that the war would involve soldiers and civilians in a complete national effort to win.
What is total war?
The late nineteenth-century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad.
What is New Imperialism?
The Western views of non-Western people across the globe.
What is Orientalism?
The alliance of Austria, Germany, and Italy. Italy left this alliance when war broke out in 1914 on the grounds that Austria had launched a war of aggression.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Commodity British traders used to break China's self-imposed economic isolation in the early nineteenth-century.
What is opium?
Germany’s initial offensive was stopped on the outskirts of Paris at this battle.
What is the Battle of the Marne?
This political theory asserted that imperialism was part of class conflict.
What is Marxism?
This Africa area was home to an independent state in 1900.
What is Ethiopia?
After the split of the Russian Social Democratic Labor party in 1903, Vladamir Lenin’s camp was known by this name.
Who are Bolsheviks?
The Chinese imperial government responded to its defeat in this war by launching a desperate reform effort.
What is the Sino-Japanese War?
These nations joined the war on the side of the Central Powers.
What are Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire?
The White race's supposed duty to civilize inferior, non-white races.
What is the White Man's Burden?
A rebellion of traditional Chinese patriots who wished to expel all Westerners from China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
The area France attacked and seized control of after it declared independence in June 1920.
What is Syria?
Most immigrants from China to this country lived in virtual slavery.
What is Cuba?
A type of fighting used in WWI behind rows of trenches, mines, and barbed wire; the cost in lives was staggering and the gains in territory minimal.
What is Trench Warfare?
The principal by which European powers established their claim to an African territory after the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885.
What is Effective Occupation?
A Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the 17th and 18th century.
What are Afrikaners?
This secret agreement in 1916 was an arrangement between Britain and France to divide up the former Ottoman territories.
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
In the mid-seventeenth century this government decided to expel all foreigners and seal off the country from European influences.
What is Japan?
These three leaders controlled the Paris Peace Conference after WWI.
Who are Wilson, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau?
Term referring to a defense of imperialism, promoted by the late German historian Heinrich von Treitschke, who argued that the acquisition of colonies was essential to great nations.
What is Imperialism Essential?
The last major effort to drive the British out of India (1857-1858).
What is the Great Rebellion?
The application of centralized state control during the Russian civil war, in which the Bolscheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
What is War Communism?