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Africa
Africa/Decolonized Africa
Asian Imperialism (India)
Asian Imperialism (China)
Asian Imperialism (Japan)
100
Unregulated capitalism, new markets, social darwinism, spreading Christianity, and raw materials are motivating factors for
What is Imperialism
100
This meeting held in 1884 and 1885, at which no Africans were present, established basic rules for imperialist competition. Subsequent European claims to African territory rested on "effective occupation."
What is Berlin Conference?
100
A political association formed in 1885 that worked for Indian self-government.
What is the Indian National Congress? (Westernizers)
100
The 1839-1842 war between the British and the Chinese over limitations on trade and the importation of opium into China.
What is the Opium War?
100
In 1853, this American Commodore helped "open" Japan through Gunboat Diplomacy.
Who is Matthew Perry?
200
This man wrote "White Man's Burden" to encourage the U.S. and other Westerners to provide humanitarian service in imperial possessions.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
200
Also known as the South African War of 1899-1902, this war was primarily waged by the British to gain mining interests from the Afrikaners. The creation of a modern, segregated society is perhaps the greatest legacy of this conflict.
What is the Boer War?
200
Reacting to British attempts to transform Indian society by outlawing sati, incorporating low-caste soldiers into the army, the use of animal grease on their rifles, these well trained and armed soldiers mounted this rebellion.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
200
This first in a series of unequal treaties ended the Opium War. It opened 5 ports to international trade, ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain, among other measures.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing
200
This reform movement is considered a turning point in Japanese history, setting Japan on a course to westernize through accomplishing goals like "strong army, rich nation" and "civilization and enlightenment."
What is the Meiji Restoration?
300
A response by those native to a colony who focused on preserving their culture against imperialists at all costs.
Who are Traditionalists?
300
The President of South Africa best known for engineering the end of apartheid in that country.
Who is F.W. de Klerk?
300
Loosely translated as "Soul Force", this particular philosophy and practice, conceived and developed by Gandhi, is generally known as nonviolent resistance.
What is Satyagraha?
300
The legal principle that exempts individuals from local laws; it was included in the Treaty of Nanjing so that British subjects in China would only be subject to British law.
What is Extraterritoriality?
300
By becoming the first non-Western nation to adopt a constitutional form of government, Japan created this two-house parliament modeled after the German constitutional monarchy system.
What is Diet?
400
A response by the those native to a colony who believed that Western impact had affected their society in some positive ways and who wanted to reform their country in similar ways.
Who are Modernizers?
400
First known as an anti-apartheid leader within the African National Congress (ANC), a liberation movement seeking political, social, and economic change, who would later become the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
This man was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. Famously promoting non-violent resistance through the Salt March or boycotting British manufactured goods, he would later be killed by a fellow, albeit, extreme Hindu.
Who is Gandhi?
400
The 1911 Revolution ended this dynasty in China. China's long history of monarchy would be replaced by a republic modeled on Western political ideas.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
400
The 1904-1905 war between Japan and Russia, fought over imperial influence and territory in northeast China (Manchuria). The success of this military campaign would serve notice to the rest of the world that Japan was no longer weak and vulnerable to further Western imperialism.
What is the Russo-Japanese War.
500
This Protestant missionary shed light on the horrors of slave raids and the suffering of innocent victims sold within Africa and through East African ports.
Who is David Livingstone?
500
One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement, this man was elected independent India's first Prime Minister in 1952.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
500
This reform movement sought to master Western technology, but not at the expense of traditional Chinese cultural and social values.
What is "Self-Strengthening?"
500
Japanese industrial combines established during Japan's early industrialization period. Later, this oligopoly would serve as a destabilizing effect on the government, contributing to the rise of the ultra-nationalist movement.
What is Zaibatsu?