Europe and its Colonies
Traveling musical variety acts that became popular around the end of the 1800s.
What are Vaudeville?
King Leopold II took control of this region of Central Africa where they had access to large numbers of resources and land.
What is the Belgian Congo?
A conflict sparked over drug smuggling into China by the British Empire.
What is the First Opium War?
A type of military dictatorship that arose in Latin America following its independence.
What are Caudillos?
A State controlled and protected by another.
What is a Protectorate?
Protests that turned to armed revolt after Home Rule was put off in Ireland because of WW1
What is the Easter Rising?
A series of wars fought between Dutch farmers and British Colonials in South Africa.
What is the Boer Wars?
A European trained Indian Soldier, they became key to the British conquest of India.
What are Sepoys?
A statement from America telling Europe to not try to recolonize the America's after losses in the region.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Seeking to control strategically important locations for the nations benefit.
What is Geopolitics?
Named after the city it was held in this conference divided Africa amongst European Powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
A Canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas opened in 1859.
What is the Suez Canal?
A war that saw Japan crush two European fleets and dismissed the myth of a superior Europe.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
A labor system that trapped many Latin American families into generational debt to lands.
What is Peonage?
Conflict centered on Cuba but fought in multiple regions, sparked by the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine?
What is the Spanish American War?
The report on the status of Canada that led to it becoming one region with Home Rule.
What is the Durham Report?
A Conflict in which the British Empire fought a Southern African Empire established by Shaka.
What is the Zulu Wars?
Hatred towards foreigners in China and Chinese converts to Christianity they led to conflict in 1899-1901?
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
A construction project linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans built after the U.S. aided a central American coup.
What is the Panama Canal?
An Anti-Malaria Drug that helped European nations conquer large swaths of Africa.
What is Quinine?
An incident where a Jewish soldier in the French Army was imprisoned because of fake evidence.
What is the Dreyfus Affair?
A battle in which Ethiopia secured its freedom from European control by beating back Italy.
Battle of Adwa/Adowa?
The movement to modernize Japan following the beginnings of forced trade with Europe.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
The item that established the U.S. as the Police Power of the America's.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The European Company that took over much of the region that is today Indonesia.
What is the Dutch East India Company?