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Imperialism in China
Imperialism in Africa
Imperialism in Latin America
Imperialism in Japan
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This conflict originated in China's efforts to enforce laws banning the import of drugs, which were having a terrible effect on Chinese society.
What is the Opium War(s)?
100
This event in 1884-85 arranged how Europeans would divide up Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
100
In announcing the Monroe Doctrine, President Monroe aimed to
What is prevent European nations from establishing new colonies in the Western Hemisphere.?
100
Japan emerges as a major world power.
What was one effect of the Russo-Japanese War?
100
This term, which was the title of a poem of 1899, is related to the idea that Europeans and Americans had a duty to "civilize" the rest of the world.
What is the White Man's Burden?
200
During the 19th century, Western nations gained control over parts of China mainly because?
What is China lacked the military technology needed to stop these ventures
200
This African state was the only one that successfully defeated colonizing Europeans during the era of colonization.
What is Ethiopia?
200
This 1914 event was made possible by a revolution in Colombia, which the the United States encouraged and supported.
What is the opening of the Panama Canal?
200
The Japanese response to Western demands in the late 19th century was not typical, and let to this great period of reform in Japan.
What is the Meiji Era?
200
Economic gain, military power, national status and missionary enthusiasm are all examples of what?
What is motivations for imperialism?
300
This event of 1869 was a huge milestone in European colonization of the East because it made travel there much much easier.
What is the opening of the Suez Canal?
300
Some Africans appreciated the arrival of Europeans because they brought modern tools and ways, and also because they did this.
What is put an end to slavery and other forms of oppression or conflict?
300
This event of 1898 made the United States into an imperial power, as it gave the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico to the US as colonies.
What is the Spanish American War?
300
What was Japan’s foreign policy from 1600-1800?
What is Isolationism?
300
Historians use the term New Imperialism to refer to the West’s
What is use of industrial technology to impose its will on the nonindustrial world
400
This anti-foreigner uprising in China in the 1890s was put down by Europeans and other foreigners, and symbolizes the ongoing instability in China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
400
As European nations established African colonies during the “Scramble for Africa” (1870-1890), they paid no attention to the existing tribal, cultural, or ethnic boundaries.
What is the partitioning of Africa by European imperialist nations during the 1800’s?
400
This US foreign policy statement said that the US should intervene in the affairs in Latin America in cases of "chronic wrongdoing."
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Dcotrine.
400
Japan’s plan for imperialism was to:
What is impose Japanese military domination over the world
400
In both official and unofficial colonies, most of the profit earned from colonial ventures ended up going where?
What is back to the home country to investors, rather than staying in the local area to help it modernize and improve.
500
Both the Taiping Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion attempted to rid China of?
What is foreign domination.
500
After 1880, European nations sought colonies in Africa primarily because the Europeans were?
What is competing for raw materials and markets.
500
Europeans and Americans chose NOT to colonize Latin America officially because:
Mostly because they didn't have to. They got what they wanted in other ways.
500
During the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese began to modernize their country primarily to
What is compete with Western powers
500
This pseudo-scientific theory, based on new real scientific discoveries of the 19th century, justified imperialism on an explicitly racial basis, and was eventually discredited as unsound.
What is Social Darwinism?