Study Terms: National Unification & Empire in Africa

European Nationalism and Empire in Africa
Ch 19 (Pgs 504-513) and Ch 21 (Pgs. 547-556)
Germany
Prussia
William I (King of Prussia—House of Hohenzollern)
Otto von Bismarck
Junker Class
Anti-Liberalism
Franco-Prussian War (Kaiser Wilhelm I)
German Nationalism, Militarism, and Expansionism
Italy
King Victor Emmanuel—House of Savoy
Count Camillo Cavour
Kingdom of Piedmont
Giuseppe Garibaldi & His “Redshirts”/Italian Nationalism/Romanticism
Ireland
Great(er) Britain & British Colonization
The Pale
Sinn Fein
Easter Uprising
(Divided) Irish Independence
“The Modern Nation State”
Mass Politics
Public Education
Classical Liberalism

5 Expansionist Motives:
Economic—Markets, Raw Materials, Industrial Revolution, Investment Capital
The Myth of the China Market
Strategic—Sea Lanes, Coaling Stations, Undersea Cables
Missionary—Protestantism
Social Darwinism—Race, and the “Struggle” for Survival among Nations
Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man’s Burden”
Status—Superpowers, “Warheads”
Theodore Roosevelt: (All of the above, esp. Status)

The Scramble for Africa
Berlin Conference of 1884
Great Britain
“From Cairo to Capetown”
South Africa
France
French West Africa
Germany
South West Africa (Namibia)/Herero Extermination
Belgium
King Leopold
Henry Stanley (David Livingston-Missionary)
Belgian Congo (latex)/Joseph Conrad/Heart of Darkness