Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific

European Imperialism in Asia
Ch 22 (568-582) Ch 23 (592-613)

India East India Company
“Westernization” of India
Sepoy Rebellion
The Raj and becoming a “Royal” Colony

China Qing Dynasty/Manzhou
Xenophobia
The Myth of the China Market /New Markets for New Products
Opium Wars/“Spheres of Influence” (leases)/Hong Kong
Taiping Rebellion
Cixi (Tu-shi)
Sino-Japanese War
Boxer Rebellion
New China Movement
Sun Yat-sen/Chiang Kai-shek /Nationalists
Chinese Communism/Mao Zedong

Japan Tokugawa/Shogun/Samurai
Matthew Perry
Meiji Restoration:
Military
Constitutional
Industrial (Zaibatsu)
Imperialism (e.g. Korea)
Racial Nationalism
Sino-Japanese War & Russo-Japanese War
Manchuria (1931)/“The Rape of Nanjing”
U.S. and the Japanese Pacific Empires


United States
William McKinley
Spanish-American War/Philippine Insurrection/War of 1898
Cuba/Puerto Rico/Guam/The Philippines—Spanish Colonies
Insurrectos and Concentrado Camps
Albert Beveridge—“March of the Flag”
Theodore Roosevelt

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