AFRICA
This competition began when Belgium created a colony in the Congo.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
This artificial waterway was built to connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
This artificial waterway was built to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
This declaration made slave trading illegal in Africa.
What was the Berlin Act?
This term refers to news reporting that is exaggerated or untrue just to sell more newspapers.
What is "yellow journalism"?
This Belgian Monarch sent explorer Henry Stanley to establish a colony in the Congo.
Who was King Leopold II?
The Ottoman Empire was considered valuable territory, because it extended across these continents.
What are Europe, Asia and Africa?
Many nations in Latin America and South America went into tremendous debt because of these transactions.
What were European loans?
This meeting between European nations peacefully divided Africa into colonies.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This term refers to a nation that is defended by another nation in exchange for political favors.
What is a protectorate?
These African nations resisted colonization and remained independent.
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?
This military conflict began when Russia invaded the Ottoman Empire.
What was the Crimean War?
This military conflict began when the U.S. annexed Texas.
What was the Mexican-American War?
This declaration warned European nations not to create new colonies in the Americas.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This term refers to a complete political takeover of one nation by another.
What is annexation?
This Middle East nation was divided, with Russia taking the north, England taking the south, and the Shah ruling the center.
What was Persia?
The Ottoman Empire survived invasion by Russia thanks to support from these allies.
What are England and France?
This military conflict began when the U.S. Maine was sunk, giving America an excuse to support a civil war in Cuba.
What was the Spanish-American War?
This declaration announced that the U.S. would serve as a "police force" in the western hemisphere.
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
This term refers to a statement of intention and the principles and beliefs behind it.
What is a doctrine?
In addition to notifying other nations, any new colonies in Africa had to have these signs of government.
What are a flag and and a police force?
After war with Russia, the Ottoman Empire was known by this insulting nickname.
What is "the Sick Man of Europe"?
Countries in Latin America received financial assistance and became protectorates of this nation.
What is America?
This declaration made Cuba a protectorate of the U.S.
What was the Platt Amendment?
This term refers to the direct consequence of a previously established fact.
What is a corollary?