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Imperialism | In anglophone academic works, theories regarding imperialism are often based on the British experience. | Theories on imperialism use which country as a model? | British |
Imperialism | The term "Imperialism" was originally introduced into English in its present sense in the late 1870s by opponents of the allegedly aggressive and ostentatious imperial policies of British prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. | When did the term imperialism first come to be used by its current definition? | in the late 1870s |
Imperialism | For some, imperialism designated a policy of idealism and philanthropy; others alleged that it was characterized by political self-interest, and a growing number associated it with capitalist greed. | What was the idealized value of imperialism? | philanthropy |
Imperialism | In his writings Lenin portrayed Imperialism as a natural extension of capitalism that arose from need for capitalist economies to constantly expand investment, material resources and manpower in such a way that necessitated colonial expansion. | According to Lenin why must capitalistic countries have an imperialistic policy? | to constantly expand investment |
Imperialism | The correlation between capitalism, aristocracy, and imperialism has long been debated among historians and political theorists. | some debate that there is a correlation between capitalism, imperialism, and what? | aristocracy |
Imperialism | Their combined work informed the study of imperialism and it's impact on Europe, as well as contributed to reflections on the rise of the military-political complex in the United States from the 1950s. | When was the military-political complex reflected upon within the scope of understanding imperialism? | the 1950s |
Imperialism | While these non-Marxist writers were at their most prolific before World War I, they remained active in the interwar years. | When were Joseph Schumpeter and Norman Angell at their most prolific writing period? | before World War I |
Imperialism | Hobson argued that domestic social reforms could cure the international disease of imperialism by removing its economic foundation. | Hobson argued that imperialism was an international what? | disease |
Imperialism | Hobson theorized that state intervention through taxation could boost broader consumption, create wealth, and encourage a peaceful, tolerant, multipolar world order. | How did Hobson argue to rid the world of imperialism? | taxation |
Imperialism | The concept environmental determinism served as a moral justification for domination of certain territories and peoples. | What served as a justification for imposing imperialistic policies on certain peoples or regions? | environmental determinism |
Imperialism | It was believed that a certain person's behaviours were determined by the environment in which they lived and thus validated their domination. | What was thought to decide a person's behavior? | the environment in which they lived |
Imperialism | For example, people living in tropical environments were seen as "less civilized" therefore justifying colonial control as a civilizing mission. | Humans in tropical environments were considered what? | less civilized |
Imperialism | Across the three waves of European colonialism (first in the Americas, second in Asia and lastly in Africa), environmental determinism was used to categorically place indigenous people in a racial hierarchy. | Europe first colonized the Americas, then Asia, but what continent was third? | Africa |
Imperialism | This takes two forms, orientalism and tropicality. | What were the two forms of environmental determinism? | orientalism and tropicality |
Imperialism | According to geographic scholars under colonizing empires, the world could be split into climatic zones. | Who thought the world could be split into climatic zones? | geographic scholars |
Imperialism | These scholars believed that Northern Europe and the Mid-Atlantic temperate climate produced a hard-working, moral, and upstanding human being. | Which regions have temperate climates? | Northern Europe and the Mid-Atlantic |
Imperialism | The people of these climates were believed to be in need of guidance and intervention from the European empire to aid in the governing of a more evolved social structure; they were seen as incapable of such a feat. | What did the the Europeans think the peoples in the tropics were in need of? | guidance |
Imperialism | Similarly, orientalism is a view of a people based on their geographical location. | What was a similar view about the Asian continent called? | orientalism |
Imperialism | According to geographic scholars under colonizing empires, the world could be split into climatic zones. | Who did the geographic scholars work for? | colonizing empires |
Imperialism | Britain's imperialist ambitions can be seen as early as the sixteenth century. | When is the earliest Britain had an imperialist policy? | the sixteenth century |
Imperialism | In 1599 the British East India Company was established and was chartered by Queen Elizabeth in the following year. | When was the British East India Company established? | 1599 |
Imperialism | In 1599 the British East India Company was established and was chartered by Queen Elizabeth in the following year. | Who chartered the British East India Company? | Queen Elizabeth |
Imperialism | In 1767 political activity caused exploitation of the East India Company causing the plundering of the local economy, almost bringing the company into bankruptcy. | What happened to the East India Trading Company in 1767? | exploitation |
Imperialism | With the establishment of trading posts in India, the British were able to maintain strength relative to others empires such as the Portuguese who already had set up trading posts in India. | Which country had trading posts in India before Britain? | the Portuguese |
Imperialism | France took control of Algeria in 1830 but began in earnest to rebuild its worldwide empire after 1850, concentrating chiefly in North and West Africa, as well as South-East Asia, with other conquests in Central and East Africa, as well as the South Pacific. | When did France take control of Algeria? | 1830 |
Imperialism | France took control of Algeria in 1830 but began in earnest to rebuild its worldwide empire after 1850, concentrating chiefly in North and West Africa, as well as South-East Asia, with other conquests in Central and East Africa, as well as the South Pacific. | When did France begin in earnest to rebuild its global empire? | 1850 |
Imperialism | As it developed, the new empire took on roles of trade with France, supplying raw materials and purchasing manufactured items, as well as lending prestige to the motherland and spreading French civilization and language as well as Catholicism. | What religion did the French spread along with their imperialism? | Catholicism |
Imperialism | France took control of Algeria in 1830 but began in earnest to rebuild its worldwide empire after 1850, concentrating chiefly in North and West Africa, as well as South-East Asia, with other conquests in Central and East Africa, as well as the South Pacific. | Where did France focus its efforts to rebuild its empire? | Africa |
Imperialism | Republicans, at first hostile to empire, only became supportive when Germany started to build her own colonial empire. | When did French Republicans back building the French empire? | when Germany started to build her own |
Imperialism | In 1884 the leading exponent of colonialism, Jules Ferry declared France had a civilising mission: "The higher races have a right over the lower races, they have a duty to civilize the inferior". | Jules Ferry thought that the "higher races" have a duty to what? | civilize the inferior |
Imperialism | Full citizenship rights – ‘’assimilation’’ – were offered, although in reality assimilation was always on the distant horizon. | What did France offer that was rare by imperial standards? | assimilation |
Imperialism | Contrasting from Britain, France sent small numbers of settlers to its colonies, with the only notable exception of Algeria, where French settlers nevertheless always remained a small minority. | How did france differ from Britain in managing its colonies? | small numbers of settlers |
Imperialism | It became a moral justification to lift the world up to French standards by bringing Christianity and French culture. | The French thought bringing what would uplift other regions? | Christianity and French culture |
Imperialism | Contrasting from Britain, France sent small numbers of settlers to its colonies, with the only notable exception of Algeria, where French settlers nevertheless always remained a small minority. | Where did the French send a large number of settlers? | Algeria |
Imperialism | In World War II, Charles de Gaulle and the Free French used the overseas colonies as bases from which they fought to liberate France. | Where did Charles de Gaulle and the Free French run operations during World War 2? | overseas colonies |
Imperialism | However after 1945 anti-colonial movements began to challenge the Empire. | After 1945, what challenged the French empire? | anti-colonial movements |
Imperialism | France fought and lost a bitter war in Vietnam in the 1950s. | Where did France lose a war in the 1950's? | Vietnam |
Imperialism | Whereas they won the war in Algeria, the French leader at the time, Charles de Gaulle, decided to grant Algeria independence anyway in 1962. | Where did France win a war in the 1950's | Algeria |
Imperialism | Nearly all of France's colonies gained independence by 1960, but France retained great financial and diplomatic influence. | By when did most of France's Colonies gain independence? | 1960 |
Imperialism | From their original homelands in Scandinavia and northern Europe, Germanic tribes expanded throughout northern and western Europe in the middle period of classical antiquity; southern Europe in late antiquity, conquering Celtic and other peoples; and by 800 CE, forming the Holy Roman Empire, the first German Empire. | Where were the Germanic tribes originally located? | Scandinavia |
Imperialism | Although by 1000 CE, the Germanic conquest of central, western, and southern Europe (west of and including Italy) was complete, excluding only Muslim Iberia. | What was the only region in Europe not conquered by the Germanic tribes? | Muslim Iberia |
Imperialism | From their original homelands in Scandinavia and northern Europe, Germanic tribes expanded throughout northern and western Europe in the middle period of classical antiquity; southern Europe in late antiquity, conquering Celtic and other peoples; and by 800 CE, forming the Holy Roman Empire, the first German Empire. | When did the Germanic tribes claim territory in north and west Europe? | middle period of classical antiquity |
Imperialism | From their original homelands in Scandinavia and northern Europe, Germanic tribes expanded throughout northern and western Europe in the middle period of classical antiquity; southern Europe in late antiquity, conquering Celtic and other peoples; and by 800 CE, forming the Holy Roman Empire, the first German Empire. | By when did the Germanic tribes conquer the Celtic peoples? | 800 CE |
Imperialism | There was, however, little cultural integration or national identity, and "Germany" remained largely a conceptual term referring to an amorphous area of central Europe. | Germany referred to which area more so than an actual country? | central Europe |
Imperialism | Not a maritime power, and not a nation-state, as it would eventually become, Germany’s participation in Western imperialism was negligible until the late 19th century. | Germany doesn't have an imperialistic past until when? | late 19th century |
Imperialism | After Prussia unified the other states into the second German Empire after the Franco-German War, its long-time Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (1862–90), long opposed colonial acquisitions, arguing that the burden of obtaining, maintaining, and defending such possessions would outweigh any potential benefits. | When was Otto von Bismarck born? | 1862 |
Imperialism | After Prussia unified the other states into the second German Empire after the Franco-German War, its long-time Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (1862–90), long opposed colonial acquisitions, arguing that the burden of obtaining, maintaining, and defending such possessions would outweigh any potential benefits. | When was the the second German empire founded? | after the Franco-German War |
Imperialism | [further explanation needed] After the defeat of Napoleon, who caused the dissolution of that Holy Roman Empire, Prussia and the German states continued to stand aloof from imperialism, preferring to manipulate the European system through the Concert of Europe. | Who caused the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire? | Napoleon |
Imperialism | He felt that colonies did not pay for themselves, that the German bureaucratic system would not work well in the tropics and the diplomatic disputes over colonies would distract Germany from its central interest, Europe itself. | What was Germany's central interest? | Europe |
Imperialism | However, in 1883–84 Germany began to build a colonial empire in Africa and the South Pacific, before losing interest in imperialism. | Besides Africa, where did Germany have imperial interests? | the South Pacific |
Imperialism | [verification needed] Bismarck was aware that public opinion had started to demand colonies for reasons of German prestige. | Colonies were a sign of what amongst European countries? | prestige |
Imperialism | The establishment of the German colonial empire proceeded smoothly, starting with German New Guinea in 1884. | When did Germany found their first settlement? | 1884 |
Imperialism | The establishment of the German colonial empire proceeded smoothly, starting with German New Guinea in 1884. | What was the name of the first German settlement? | New Guinea |
Imperialism | He was influenced by Hamburg merchants and traders, his neighbors at Friedrichsruh. | Who influenced Bismark besides his neighbors? | Hamburg merchants and traders |
Imperialism | As a result of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan took part of Sakhalin Island from Russia. | What happened as a result of the Russo-Japanese War? | Japan took part of Sakhalin Island |
Imperialism | During the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan absorbed Taiwan. | When was the first Sino-Japanese War? | 1894 |
Imperialism | Japan also invaded Thailand, pressuring the country into a Thai/Japanese alliance. | Which country did Japan force into an alliance? | Thailand |
Imperialism | In 1931 Japan conquered Manchuria from China. | Which area of China did Japan conquer in 1931? | Manchuria |
Imperialism | The Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China supported post–World War II communist movements in foreign nations and colonies to advance their own interests, but were not always successful. | Who along with Russia supported post WW-II communist movements? | China |
Imperialism | Never formally revoked, it stopped being implemented after 1932. | When was the Russian Policy "Indigenization" defunded? | 1932 |
Imperialism | Bolshevik leaders had effectively reestablished a polity with roughly the same extent as that empire by 1921, however with an internationalist ideology: Lenin in particular asserted the right to limited self-determination for national minorities within the new territory. | Who asserted Russia's right to "self-determination?" | Lenin |
Imperialism | After World War II, the Soviet Union installed socialist regimes modeled on those it had installed in 1919–20 in the old Tsarist Empire in areas its forces occupied in Eastern Europe. | After WW-II where did Russia apply its old Tsarist regimes? | Eastern Europe |
Imperialism | Bolshevik leaders had effectively reestablished a polity with roughly the same extent as that empire by 1921, however with an internationalist ideology: Lenin in particular asserted the right to limited self-determination for national minorities within the new territory. | Who had established the Russian empire to its former glory prior to 1921? | Bolshevik leaders |
Imperialism | Trotsky, and others, believed that the revolution could only succeed in Russia as part of a world revolution. | Trotsky thought what was needed for a true Russian revolution. | a world revolution |
Imperialism | Lenin wrote extensively on the matter and famously declared that Imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism. | Who wrote that imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism? | Lenin |
Imperialism | Mao Zedong once argued that the Soviet Union had itself become an imperialist power while maintaining a socialist façade. | Who argued that the USSR had itself become an imperialist power? | Mao Zedong |
Imperialism | With the beginning of the new era, the after Stalin period called the "thaw", in the late 1950s, the new political leader Nikita Khrushchev put even more pressure on the Soviet-American relations starting a new wave of anti-imperialist propaganda. | Who was the leader of Russia in the 1960's? | Nikita Khrushchev |
Imperialism | However, after Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin established 'socialism in one country' for the Soviet Union, creating the model for subsequent inward looking Stalinist states and purging the early Internationalist elements. | What policy did Stalin implement shortly after Lenin's Death? | socialism in one country |
Imperialism | The First British Empire was based on mercantilism, and involved colonies and holdings primarily in North America, the Caribbean, and India. | What was the first British empire based on? | mercantilism |
Imperialism | Its growth was reversed by the loss of the American colonies in 1776. | When did Great Britain lose its colonies in North America? | 1776 |
Imperialism | By the 1840s, Britain had adopted a highly successful policy of free trade that gave it dominance in the trade of much of the world. | What policy gave Britain dominance in world trade? | free trade |
Imperialism | Britain made compensating gains in India, Australia, and in constructing an informal economic empire through control of trade and finance in Latin America after the independence of Spanish and Portuguese colonies about 1820. | When did the Spanish and Portuguese colonies gain their independance. | about 1820 |
Imperialism | Following the defeat of Napoleonic France in 1815, Britain enjoyed a century of almost unchallenged dominance and expanded its imperial holdings around the globe. | When was the defeat of Napoleonic France? | 1815 |
Imperialism | The British Empire was the largest Empire that the world has ever seen both in terms of landmass and population. | By the late 19th century, which country had the largest empire ever to exist in the world? | The British Empire |
Imperialism | The pseudo-sciences of Social Darwinism and theories of race formed an ideological underpinning during this time. | What kinds of sciences were Social Darwinism and theories of race? | pseudo-sciences |
Imperialism | The British spirit of imperialism was expressed by Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Rosebury, and implemented in Africa by Cecil Rhodes. | Rudyard Kipling was an influential spokesman for what? | The British spirit of imperialism |
Imperialism | A resurgence came in the late 19th century, with the Scramble for Africa and major additions in Asia and the Middle East. | In which continent besides Asia were major gains made by the British Empire in the late 19th century? | Middle East |
Imperialism | The early United States expressed its opposition to Imperialism, at least in a form distinct from its own Manifest Destiny, through policies such as the Monroe Doctrine. | How did the United States plan to subdue imperialistic tendencies? | the Monroe Doctrine |
Imperialism | However, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, policies such as Theodore Roosevelt’s interventionism in Central America and Woodrow Wilson’s mission to "make the world safe for democracy" changed all this. | What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s policy of imperialism? | interventionism |
Imperialism | One year later, a war erupted in the Philippines causing business, labor and government leaders in the US to condemn America's occupation in the Philippines as they also denounced them for causing the deaths of many Filipinos. | What caused the US public to condemn the occupation of the philippines? | a war erupted |
Imperialism | In 1898, Americans who opposed imperialism created the Anti-Imperialist League to oppose the US annexation of the Philippines and Cuba. | Which country besides the Cuba did the United states try to annex in 1898? | the Philippines |
Imperialism | American foreign policy was denounced as a "racket" by Smedley Butler, an American general. | What did Smedley Butler call US foreign Policy? | a "racket" |
Imperialism | One key figure in the plans for what would come to be known as American Empire, was a geographer named Isiah Bowman. | Who was the director of the American Geographical Society in 1914? | Isiah Bowman |
Imperialism | Three years later in 1917, he was appointed to then President Woodrow Wilson's inquiry in 1917. | When was Isiah Bowman appointed to President Wilson's Inquiry? | 1917 |
Imperialism | The inquiry was the idea of President Wilson and the American delegation from the Paris Peace Conference. | Who besides Woodrow Wilson himself had the idea for the inquiry? | American delegation from the Paris Peace Conference |
Imperialism | The point of this inquiry was to build a premise that would allow for U. | What was the premise of Woodrow Wilson's inquiry? | U.S authorship of a 'new world' |
Imperialism | As a result of his role in the inquiry, Isiah Bowman would come to be known as Wilson's geographer. | What was Isiah Bowman nick name, as known by the public. | Wilson's geographer |
Imperialism | Some have described the internal strife between various people groups as a form of imperialism or colonialism. | Some people describe what between individuals or groups as imperialism or colonialism? | internal strife |
Imperialism | This internal form of empire has been referred to as "internal colonialism". | the US expansion Westward could be viewed as what type of colonialism? | "internal colonialism" |
Imperialism | Participation in the African slave trade and the subsequent treatment of its 12 to 15 million Africans is viewed by some to be a more modern extension of America's "internal colonialism". | How many Africans were brought into the United States during the slave trade? | 12 to 15 million |
Imperialism | In his lecture on April 16, 2003, Edward Said made a bold statement on modern imperialism in the United States, whom he described as using aggressive means of attack towards the contemporary Orient, "due to their backward living, lack of democracy and the violation of women’s rights. | Who does Edward Said say is being attacked by US imperialism? | the contemporary Orient |
Imperialism | The Ottoman Empire was an imperial state that lasted from 1299 to 1923. | When did the Ottoman Empire fall? | 1923 |
Imperialism | During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was a powerful multinational, multilingual empire controlling much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. | Who reigned over the Ottoman empire when it was at its most powerful. | Suleiman the Magnificent |
Imperialism | At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained 32 provinces and numerous vassal states. | How many provinces did the Ottoman empire contain in the 17th century? | 32 |
Imperialism | During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was a powerful multinational, multilingual empire controlling much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. | The Ottoman empire controlled territory on three continents, Africa, Asia and which other? | Europe |
Imperialism | During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was a powerful multinational, multilingual empire controlling much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. | When was the Ottoman empire at its height? | During the 16th and 17th centuries |
Imperialism | With Istanbul as its capital and control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries. | What was the capital of the Ottoman empire? | Istanbul |
Imperialism | The empire allied with Germany in the early 20th century, with the imperial ambition of recovering its lost territories, but it dissolved in the aftermath of World War I, leading to the emergence of the new state of Turkey in the Ottoman Anatolian heartland, as well as the creation of modern Balkan and Middle Eastern s... | Who did the Ottoman empire ally with in WW I? | Germany |
Imperialism | The empire allied with Germany in the early 20th century, with the imperial ambition of recovering its lost territories, but it dissolved in the aftermath of World War I, leading to the emergence of the new state of Turkey in the Ottoman Anatolian heartland, as well as the creation of modern Balkan and Middle Eastern s... | What ended Turkish imperial Ambitions? | World War I |
Imperialism | The empire allied with Germany in the early 20th century, with the imperial ambition of recovering its lost territories, but it dissolved in the aftermath of World War I, leading to the emergence of the new state of Turkey in the Ottoman Anatolian heartland, as well as the creation of modern Balkan and Middle Eastern s... | Which country today is a remnant of the Ottoman empire? | Turkey |
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