AICE International History: Modern Exam

1873-1879

When was the “Long Depression?”

Need for raw materials and new markets

What were the economic factors for imperialism in the Scramble for Africa?

Malaria

Which disease kept Europeans from colonizing Africa due to high death rates, to the point that Africa was called the “White Man’s Grave?”

Growth of nationalism

What is one political factor for the growth of nationalism during the Age of Imperialism?

Quinine

What was used to defend against Malaria in the early Scramble for Africa?

Maxim gun

What was the name of the first machine gun that gave Europeans a significant advantage in territorial conquest in colonized nations?

1876

When did Britain and France assume control of Egyptian finances?

Egypt defaulted on their European loans

What triggered the dual control system in Egypt that advanced European colonialism in the region?

Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that the human species is divided into biologically distinct taxa called "races", and that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racial discrimination, racial inferiority, or racial superiority.

What is the “Theory of Racial Superiority?”

The belief that European nations and peoples had a responsibility to “educate” and “civilize” the indigenous peoples of Africa

What is “paternalism?”

-War guilt

-Reparations

-Loss of territory

-Military restrictions

-Forbidding Anschluss

What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

-Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

-Loss of 60% of territory

-Reparations

Treaty of Saint-Germain

-Bulgaria cedes southern Dubruja to Romania

-Bulgarian troops limited to 20,000 troops

-100 million Euros in reparation, 75% was eventually remitted

Treaty of Neuilly

-Hungary lost a significant amount of territory

-War guilt

-Reparations

-Military restrictions

-Free trade

Treaty of Trianon