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Imperialism

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Next topic: Mid Century Thought

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TIMELINE

1842    Opium Wars

1853    Japan “opened”

1868    Meiji restoration

1871    German Unification completed

1878    Congress of Berlin (regarding Africa)

1900    Boxer “Rebellion”

1914    Africa nearly completely imperialized

 

I. Reasons prompting imperialism's rise

1        Congress of Vienna

2        Push-pull of business – coal fueling stations

3        Nationalism: prove or gain status as a great power

4        Romanticism

5        Racism

 

II. Russian Expansion

 

III. Japan learns from Europe 

Russo-Japanese War

 

 IV. Vincent Van Gogh
Imperialism in Africa by 1914 Imperialism in Asia
Imperialism in Africa Imperialism in Asia

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