Nationalism & Unification
This is the belief that people with a shared culture should have their own nation.
What is nationalism?
The 1854 event that forced Japan to open to trade with the West.
What is Commodore Perry’s arrival?
The three G’s: ___, Glory, and Gold.
What is God?
The meeting where Europeans divided Africa without Africans present.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The 1857 Indian rebellion against the British.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
This Prussian leader used “blood and iron” to unify Germany.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
The period of rapid modernization in Japan beginning in 1868.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Industrial nations wanted colonies mainly for these two things.
What are raw materials and markets?
This king brutally controlled the Congo.
Who is King Leopold II?
Chinese uprising against foreign influence in 1900.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This war between Prussia and France helped complete German unification in 1871.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
Japan modernized mainly to avoid this fate experienced by many Asian countries.
What is colonization/imperialism?
This racist theory claimed stronger nations should dominate weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
This term describes artificial borders drawn by Europeans.
What are superimposed boundaries?
This African nation defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.
What is Ethiopia?
Explain ONE similarity between the unification of Germany and Italy.
Both were unified through war and strong leadership / nationalism / alliances.
Compare Japan’s industrialization with Europe’s.
Japan industrialized later and faster, copying Western models. [TRIPLE POINTS IF YOU CAN ALSO COMPARE IT TO EGYPT'S INDUSTRIALIZATION WITH SPECIFIC EXAMPLES]
Explain how industrialization caused imperialism.
Need for resources + markets + power.
Explain why the Berlin Conference led to future conflict.
Borders ignored ethnic groups → conflict.
Compare the Sepoy Rebellion and Boxer Rebellion.
Both resisted foreign control; both failed long-term.
Explain how nationalism can be both a unifying and dividing force.
Unifies people within a nation but divides multi-ethnic empires.
Explain how nationalism influenced Japan’s imperialism.
Desire to be powerful and respected → empire building.
This phrase described the supposed duty of Europeans to “civilize” others.
What is the White Man’s Burden? [TRIPLE POINTS IF YOU NAME THE AUTHOR OF THE POEM]
This event describes European competition for African land.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Explain why resistance movements often failed.
Europeans had superior weapons/technology.