Nationalism And Imperialism Nationalism Unification of Germany Led
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Nationalism And Imperialism
Nationalism Unification of Germany: • Led by Prussia • Otto von Bismarck – Prime Minister under Wilhelm I – Policy of Realpolitik: • Tough power politics - no idealism • Issues not decided by resolutions, but by “blood and iron” • Allowed him to expand Prussia & achieve dominance
Nationalism Unification of Italy: • Led by Sardinia • Camillo di Cavour – Prime Minister under Victor Emmanuel II – Worked to expand Sardinian Empire – Succeeded through war, alliances, & help of nationalist rebels – Unified Italy in process
Germany & Italy - Similarities • Leaders were aristocrats • Nations united by nationalism • One state led unification
Forces of Imperialism Motives: • Economic competition for markets & raw materials • National pride • Racism – “White Man’s Burden” • Missionaries' desire to Christianize & “civilize” non. European peoples
Take up the White Man’s burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go send your sons to exile To serve your captives' need To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child Take up the White Man’s burden In patience to abide To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple An hundred times made plain To seek another’s profit And work another’s gain Take up the White Man’s burden— And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard— The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah slowly) to the light: "Why brought ye us from bondage, “Our loved Egyptian night? ” Take up the White Man’s burden. Have done with childish days. The lightly proffered laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years, Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers!
Forces of Imperialism Technological Advantages over Africa: • Superior weapons • Railroads, cables, steamships • Quinine (drug) to protect from malaria
Forces of Imperialism Factors Making Africa Vulnerable: • Africans’ great diversity of languages and cultures • Ethnic rivalries • Lower level of technology, including weapons
Division of Africa Berlin Conference of 1884 & 1885: • Agreement among 14 European nations about how to divide Africa among European countries • Outcomes: – Random distribution of African ethnic & linguistic groups among European nations – Transformation of the way of life of Africans
“From Cairo to Cape Town”
French Control of Indochina How Brought Under Control: • Missionaries were killed • French army invaded Vietnam • Combined it with Laos and Cambodia
French Control of Indochina Method of Control: • Direct control – French themselves filled all important positions in gov’t
French Control of Indochina Economic Policies: • Discouraged local industry • Rice became major export crop
French Control of Indochina Colonial Impact: • Imposed French culture • All schools, courts, & businesses followed French models • ↓ of local industries • Less food for peasants
Effects of Imperialism Colonization: • Europeans control land people in areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Effects of Imperialism Colonial Economics: • Europeans control trade in the colonies and set up dependent cash-crop economies
Effects of Imperialism Christianization: • Christianity is spread to Africa, India, and Asia
- Chapter 23 lesson 3 nationalism unification and reform
- Love my country
- Strong devotion
- Germany before unification
- Why did germany avoid “wounding austria too severely”?
- Unification of germany class 10 mind map
- Define cavour
- Liberalism and nationalism in germany 1815-71
- Nationalism case study italy and germany
- Old imperialism examples
- Old imperialism motives
- Nationalism imperialism militarism
- Militarism alliances imperialism nationalism
- German and italian unification compare and contrast
- National unification and the national state
- Prolog langage
- Summary of the italian unification
- Sardina
- Unification operating model
- Unification in first order logic