Taking over foreign lands
India, Africa, and East Asia
American & Japanese Imperialism
Causes of
World War I
WWI Fighting & Consequences
100

This term means a strong sense of pride and loyalty to your nation and its people.

nationalism

100

This European country was the main colonizer of India.

Great Britain / England

100

The United States annexed these islands partly because they were useful for naval strategy and sugar production.

Hawaii, American Samoa

100

This cause of WWI involved nations building up armies and weapons in preparation for war.

militarism

100

Before the United States entered the war, the Western Front had reached this condition, with little movement by either side.

stalemate

200

This is the policy of a country extending control over other lands or peoples.

imperialism

200

In India, the British pushed farmers to grow these kinds of crops for sale instead of food crops.

cash crops

200

This war gave the United States Puerto Rico and Guam and led to the purchase of the Philippines.

Spanish-American War

200

This cause of WWI involved countries competing for colonies, land, and resources.

imperialism

200

This weapon made trench warfare especially deadly and helped create No Man’s Land.

machine guns

300

European nations often justified empire-building by saying they were spreading wealth, religion, culture, medicine, and education. 

Humanitarian-ism

300

This 1884–1885 meeting divided Africa among European powers without African leaders having a real say

Berlin Conference

300

Which canal did American imperialists build to connect the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans?

Panama Canal

300

This cause of WWI involved intense pride in one’s nation or ethnic group, causing other nations to look down on other ethnic groups.

nationalism

300

This genocide in the Ottoman Empire killed hundreds of thousands to over a million people during WWI.

Armenian genocide

400

This idea claimed stronger nations had the right to dominate weaker ones, and it was used to defend imperialism.

Social Darwinism

400

This Japanese reform movement restored the rule of the emperor and launched rapid modernization.

Meiji Restoration

400

Why did the Japanese take over Manchuria and Korea?

For natural resources - they needed them to industrialize

400

Although WWI started as a dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, what dragged other European nations into the fight?

Alliances

400

What was the name of the famous civilian ship that was sunk by Germany in WWI and helping bring the U.S. into WWI?

Lusitania

500

This is the key difference between nationalism and imperialism: one focuses on pride in your nation, while the other focuses on doing this to other territories.

taking control/power over

500

China was forced to open more trade and give ports like the city of Hong Kong to Britain as part of these wars.

Opium Wars 

500

What was the name of the U.S. ship that blew up and was used as a reason to start a war between the U.S. and the Spanish?

U.S.S. Maine

500

The assassination of which European leader ignited the start of WWI? 

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

500

The Treaty of _____________ punished Germany by blaming it for the war and forcing it to pay for damages and decrease the size if its empire and army.

Versailles