Imperialism and Colonialism: Key Concepts and Historical Events
Imperialism and Colonialism: Key Concepts
Colony: A country or area under the full political control of another country. Examples include the Kongo and Nigeria.
Colonialism: The practice of a country conquering a territory or place to extract benefits such as goods and slaves.
Key Historical Events
Berlin Conference: A meeting organized by Germany to decide how Africa would be divided among European countries.
Indigenous: People who share collective ancestral ties to the land where they live or from which they have been displaced.
Monroe Doctrine: A policy in which the United States aimed to control America and its economy, encapsulated by the phrase “America for the Americans.”
Belle Époque: A period when two blocs invested heavily in their militaries, leveraging industrialization before World War I.
Protectorates: Territories where the mother country chose not to intervene in local politics, controlling only economic matters and foreign relations. This model was first used in Asia, with the British in India and France and Spain in Morocco. Venezuela was in one after the Cuban War ended.
Dominions: Territories of the British Empire largely occupied by a new population of European origin, possessing significant autonomy and their own institutions.
Mother Country: The imperialist state on which a colony depended, holding all aspects of power: political, military, economic, social, and cultural.
Fashoda Incident: A diplomatic dispute between France and Great Britain during their attempts to control Africa, when both powers reached what is now South Sudan.
Bloody Sunday: A group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the Czar’s Winter Palace to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre.
Armed Peace: As diplomatic tension between the two blocs increased, each bloc invested in its military, taking advantage of the advances of industrialization.
Bolsheviks: Advocated for the seizure of power by a committed working-class minority. Their most famous motto was “Peace, bread, and land.”
Mensheviks: Were more moderate and favored an alliance with reformist liberalism.
Russia was governed by an autocratic monarchy, in which the Czar exercised his power – established by divine right – as an absolute ruler. The sovereign was backed by a feudal aristocracy, the Orthodox Church, and a corrupt bureaucracy.
Timeline of Events
- USA stealing Cuba from Spain
- The division of China after the Opium War
- Berlin Conference
- British and France taken the colonies
- Colonialism and imperialism
- Balkan Wars
- Separation of Panama and the construction of the canal
- The British wants from the north to the south Africa.
- Opium Wars (British introducing opium to China)
- Colonialism
- First World War
- Position War
- The Triple Entente
- Armed Peace
- Russian Revolution
- USA evolution
- Treaty of Versailles
- USSR (space race)
- 1950s USSR feminist demonstration
- Equality from the men and the women in the USSR
- Extermination camps where they put people who did not think like them.