Overview of Imperialism and Its Impact

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.

The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.

When many European countries all rushed into Africa in an attempt to gain lands for themselves.

<p>idea that many European countries had a duty to spread their religion and culture to those less civilized</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>imperialist country installs its own government; most direct form of control</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the system by which a company or country is organized at the most basic level</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>loyalty to a nation and promotion of its interests above all others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Change in technology, brought about by improvements in machinery and by use of steam power</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules about the colonization of Africa. They disregarded cultural/ethnic/tribal lines were disregarded.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>raw materials for industrial revolution, trade, cheap labor, new markets</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1st machine gun (Maxim gun), new medicine (1st malaria pill), steam engine (boats could get into the interior of Africa)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>economic growth, improved education and healthcare,</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>nationalism (pride and prestige), national security/border protection, military bases &amp; source of troops</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>maxim gun, railroad/steamships, cure for malaria, internal divisions, industrial revolution</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>territory maintains its own government with strong foreign influence</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>exclusive trading rights</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Britain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>wanted Suez canal for trade; geographic location - cut distance to India</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Belgium</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>wanted natural resources (rubber, ivory), cheap labor</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>strict system of racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa against black South Africans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>led the ANC and spent 27 years in prison until becoming the first elected President of a democratic South Africa.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Germany (Germany lost overseas colonies after WWI), then Belgium</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Belgium created imbalance of power between Hutus and Tutsi; created racial discrimination against Hutus and gave privileges to Tutsi; caused long-term resentment that led to genocide in the 1990s</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>wanted to control the Nile river for a planned irrigation dam</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Modern technology, modern medicine, schools, development of infrastructure - roads, ports, railroads</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Kigali</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hutu</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tutsi</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1994</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>over 800,000</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>sent peacekeeping forces, they weren't allowed to stop the killing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>he risked his life and his family to help save strangers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hutu militia group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hutus derogatory name for Tutsi</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>controlled by Interhamwe (used propaganda to start genocide)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sudan</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Islam</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>North Sudan</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Arab</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>South Sudan</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>more than 27,000 boys of the Dinka ethnic group who were displaced and/or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In 1987 the government announced a plan to kill all males in Southern Sudan.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Due to a UN policy of placing orphaned girls with foster families in the refugee camp, the Lost Girls were ineligible for resettlement as &quot;unaccompanied minors.&quot; Foster placement often amounted to indentured servitude. Moreover, foster parents frequently pushed girls into marriage so the foster family would receive bridewealth—cash and cattle—from the groom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>who flees in search of safety, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lost Boy of Sudan, resettled in America, started a successful nonprofit to provide health care to people in Southern Sudan</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>South Sudan's independence (will start on July 9th, 2011)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Like the rest of African, Sudan's borders were drawn up by colonial powers with little regard to cultural realities on the ground. North and South have different geography, culture, religion, ethnic groups, etc. With the government in the north, many southerners were discriminated against. Southerners also angered at attempts to impose Islamic law on the whole country.</p> Signup and view all the answers