Notes 1 12/16/11; 12/20/11:

Taiping and the boxer rebellion:

the teiping rebellion

the wide spread civil war in china from 1850 to 1864
led by Hong Xiuquan
had visions that he was the brother of Jesus led the war against the ruling manchu qing dynisty
the people involved were qing dynisty, united kingdom, france, taiping hevanly kingdom.

Boxer revolution

They got the nickname from the fact that they used halberds and spears.
The reason for the revolution was the foreigners were taking over their country and the Europeans were changing government.
were ritualistic
they thought that if they practiced magic they would become invincible.

Nelson mandella and gaundi

Mandela

nelson was born in a small town in south africa on july 18 1918
in afrikaans, apartheld means sepretness. in about 1948 south africa's governing system discriminated against black
Nelson and other people started taking place in passive resistance.
was in jail for 27 years
1990 nelson become president of south africa. Nelson was the leading force in the battle against apartheid.

Gandhi

was born in porbander in1892
gandhi was indian
spent 1921 days in jail because of civil disobediance.
was assasinated at 78

Sun Yat-sen and the Opium war

Sun Yat-Sen

Became prez and father of kuomintang.
the kuomintangs goal was to succed the revolutionary alliance
Resisted Japan and got recognition of power from other naitons
ended the high water mark of the war lord era and unified china under one governement.

The Opium War

Lin Ze-xu was the basic reason for it
opium was smugled into china.
1820-1830
lin Ze-xu wanted to save the silver and china and started attacking the ships
Britan was hooking china on opium and controlling them with it.

White mans burden

white mans berden

supposed responsibility over uncivilized people
missionary impulse was that they needed to change the beliefs of the natives to christianity

Paternalism

was a mild form of racism
They thought it justified itself.
social darwinism- the strongest survive.

Germany italy and france in the age of imperialism

Germany

was focused on africa
They were searching for oil

italy

was targeting exes goods and raw materials.

France

ruled indirectly
France's focus was on two paterns:Assimilation, and Association.
The resorses they were looking for was raw matireils and execs goods
They used war to conquer.

The independance movement of cuba and the spaineish american war

cuba

colonised by pope alex vi in 1493
Cuba whanted freedom.
America helped
Amilio Aguinaldo
1st and yougest prez of philipen
fought in revolution
Joined the good kkk (not the one after the civil war)
declared independance
officialy independant on july 4.

The scramble for africa and nelson mandella

scramble for africa

1881
slowed the independance by many differant countries in america
berlin comfrnce was the held to stop wars from braking out over affrica
eatheopia and lybiria were free the whole time.

Nelson mandella

was in the african comferance
was put in jail and was relaeced lator.
won the nobel prize in 1993
was a rugby fan.

Us imperialism

whanted expantion
reconstruction era
monroe doctorine stated that the westen hemisphere was ours
cuban war was in the philipeans and in cuba
dont cause trouble but back it up with a big stick
hawaii became part of US

Indipandance in Kenya and Ethiopia

Kenya
the mau mau movement began from people with the same problem
they put up a good fight against the british even thought they were weak
They arested jomo kenyatta and he was put in labor
in exile during 1952
then he became the prez
affrican imdependances took place in the 20th century
Menelik II was thought to be the decendant of queen of Sheba and king solomon
Batle in ethopia
had signifigant conciquences and was in unique palce

Causes of imperialism and geography of colonies

the europen countries whanted power and the industrialism had need for resorces
misions and social darwinism were also causes.