Why did European countries participate in imperialism and a race for colonies?

Economic- Resources

Economic- Raw Materials

Social- Christianizing

Political- gain an advantage over rivals

Political- Benefit the country with markets to trade

What were some responses of colonized peoples to European imperialism?

Some Africans fought back against the Europeans: Maji Maji Rebellions, Ethiopians

Some Africans worked slower and ran away.

Some Africans tried diplomacy to no avail

How did imperialist European powers claim control over most of Africa by the end of the 1800s?

Technology!!!

Weapons- examples…….

Transportation……..

Communication……

How did European contact with Africa increase in the late 1800s

Colonization

The Europeans began annexing areas of Africa to become their colonies and taking control of the resources.

How did King Leopold II set off a scramble for colonies in Africa?

Jealousy

Leopold claimed Congo for his own. Other European countries saw this and scrambled to grab colonies where they could.

How did Ethiopians resist imperialism?

Geography

The Europeans were able to resist the imperialism because they were surrounded by mountains, which enabled them to remain independent.

How did the Qing respond to Britain’s diplomatic mission?

Opium Wars and Rebellions

When the Chinese refused to let Britain sell opium in China the British went to war and made the Chinese sign the TREATY OF NANJING and other countries followed suit and made them sign UNEQUAL TREATIES.

The TAIPING REBELLION and the BOXER REBELLION were examples of uprisings against the Europeans

China was divided up into SPHERES OF INFLUENCES

What are the reasons for the Open Door Policy in China?

Greed!!!

The OPEN DOOR POLICY happened because the US wanted to trade with China and there were no available SPHERES OF INFLUENCES.

How did nationalism and democracy influence national revolutions?

Latin American countries were encouraged by the Enlightenment ideas of equality and democratic ideals.

They were spurred on by the French and American Revolutions.

How did Germany and Japan become and industrial giant?

Germany had been very industrialized, but fragmented. OTTO VON BISMARCK is the man who united Germany and created the modern German nation.

Japan changed out of fear when Commodore Matthew Perry showed up with gun ships. The Japanese wanted to avoid imperialism, so they studied European countries and selectively borrowed ideas and technology to become intensively industrialized.

How and why did World War I begin?

MANIA

MILITARISM

ALLIANCE SYSTEM

NATIONALISM

IMPERIALISTIC RIVALRIES

ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND

What were the major events of the war?

Technological advance

Trench warfare

Chemical weapons

America entry into the war

Social changes/role of women

Identify and compare political boundaries before and after WW I.

Describe the results from fighting on the western and eastern fronts.

TRENCH WARFARE

Not mobile

Many people dying

What impact did the Zimmerman note and unrestricted submarine warfare have on the United States entering the war?

What were the outcomes and global effects of World War I?

Fourteen Points

League of Nations

Retaliatory provisions

What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles? 

Germany lost- punished by treaty of Versailles- forced to accept blame for the war- Had to pay reparations!!

Austria-Hungary- divided

France- given back Alsace and Lorraine

Russian Revolution!

Why was Bloody Sunday a turning point for the Russians?

Bloody Sunday was the day Russian troops fired on unarmed Russian protestors.

This showed the governments willingness to stop rebellion at any cost.

Why did Russia erupt in revolution while fighting in World War I?

Average Russians had little invested in the war

Starvation

High Unemployment

No rights and freedoms

How did communism rise in Russia

?

Petrograd Soviet

Unemployed starving, over crowded cities

V.I. Lenin

How did Lenin’s policies change economic and social life in Russia?

Totalitarians

What were Stalin’s goals for the U.S.S.R., and how did he achieve them?

Increase industrial output and modernize agriculture

5 year plans

Forced collectivization

How did these regimes affect the world after World War I?

Spread of Fascism

Total control of their countries

How did postwar disillusionment contribute to Mussolini’s rise?

Italy was dissed at the Treaty of Versailles

High unemployment

How did the Fascist party transform Italy’s government and economy?

Totalitarianism

Nationalized industries

What political and economic problems did the Weimar Republic face?

Hyper inflation

Unemployment

French Soldiers stationed in Germany

Limited Army and Navy

Distrust from Commoners

Describe the Nazi party’s ideology and Hitler’s plans for ruling Germany.

Germans are a master race

All is done for the benefit of the country and the race

Blame the Jews for all of Germany’s problems

What changes did militarists make when they came to power?

What role did geography play in Japan’s desire to expand its empire?

Japan had limited resources

Expanded on islands in the Pacific, Korea, China and S. E. Asia

World War II

Describe the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire.

What convinced Britain and France to end their policy of appeasement? Why?

Invasion of Poland

Invasion of France

Which regions fell under Axis rule between 1939 and 1941?

France

Poland

Czechoslavakia

North Africa

S.E. Asia

Norway, Sweden

What were the causes of World War II?

Why did the United States enter the war?

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

What were the major events and turning points of World War II?

Battle of Britain

D-Day

Fall of Italy

Midway

Bombing of Tokyo

Who were the major leaders of World War II?

Winston Churchill

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Josef Stalin

Adolph Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Hideko Tojo

Why did President Truman decide to use the atomic bomb?

Save U.S. soldiers lives

End war quicker

Why do you think that an event as horrifying as the Holocaust was able to occur?

What were the long-term effects of World War II?

What was the war crimes trial?

Germans and Japanese were tried in the UN international court for crimes against humanity.

Cold War

. What events led to the Cold War?

Yalta Conference

Iron Curtain Speech

Dividing up Germany

What factors discouraged the use of nuclear weapons during the Cold War?

How did the U.S. and the Soviet Union confront each other around the world during the Cold War?

Proxy Wars

Ex- Korea

Vietnam

Greece and Turkey- Marshall Plan

Containment

What were the main successes and failures of the Chinese Communist Revolution?

Chinese Revolution

Chinese Civil War

Mao Zedong

Great Leap Forward

Cultural Revolution

Emergence of the Peoples Democratic Movements

Tiananmen Square

Republic of China and Taiwan

How did the Cold War influence conflicts in Eastern Asia after World War II?

Korea- North Communist/ South U.S.

Vietnam

What was the policy of containment?

Contain communism in the areas which it is already.

Keep it from spreading.

How did the domino theory lead the United States to send troops to Vietnam?

The idea that if one country goes communist, others will follow suit.

Vietnam, Laos Cambodia

How did communist Vietnam dominate parts of Southeast Asia after the Vietnam War?

Saigon falls

Created one vietnam under Communist rule

Pol Pot in Cambodia

Khmer Rouge

What were the causes and consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union

Causes for the decline of Communist regimesSoviet UnionMikhail GorbachevPerestroikaGlasnostPolandSolidarity MovementRomaniaGermanyFall of the Berlin WallReunification of GermanyNew independent countries formed from the Soviet Union

What were the international cooperative organizations created after World War II? 

The United Nations

North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO

South East Asian Treaty Organization SEATO

The Warsaw Pact