“American factories are making more than American people can use… We will establish trading posts throughout the world as points for American products” (excerpt by Senator A. J. Beveridge) once the Americans have a high position in the trading business they try to establish trading posts and become the major importer of goods world wide. In the regions of Africa there was a large amount of a variety of materials, ranging from iron, rubber, and tin. These vital products led to advancements in the industrialization of Europe. Iron was used to make steel which was a stronger and lighter metal; this increasingly helped the improvement of machinery. In New Imperialism the seeking for more raw materials wasn’t their main goal, the Europeans wanted to sell their products Asian foreigners.
[Worth starting with the Midlothian campaigns, 1879-80] The First Boer War (1880-81) was a major shock to many in Britain, as, unlike the easy victory many had expected, the British forces were crushed following a series of tactical blunders, notably at Majuba Hill where Sir George Pomeroy Colley led his 405-strong infantry to camp at the top of the hill, and in the night they were stormed by Boer forces, suffering 285 casualties to the Boers 6. This had such a profound effect on the British that the phrase “remember Majuba” was used in battle to motivate troops until the end of the Second Boer War. From the use of this phrase, we can assume that, as the motivated troops were of poorer classes and the motivating generals were of the richer classes, that there was likely a strong sense of pro-imperialism throughout Britain in 1881, especially in the upper classes. In 1884, there was a Sudanese uprising led by the Mahdi, which
Three thousand French troops were killed, and eight thousand wounded. Vietnamese suffered much more with eight thousand dead and twelve thousand wounded. In 1961, John F. Kennedy ordered more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war, On July 30, 1964 the war moved to two small North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Ton kin. During This twenty-five year period the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in US history. Much of Vietnam's history has been under foreign rule by the Chinese.
Imperialism: The Scramble for Africa (1880-1900) was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. But it wouldn't have happened except for the particular economic, social, and military evolution Europe was going through. In the end Britain and France had the most colonies and Germany lost out so it was also a major contributor to tension in Europe. Nationalism: Triple Entente, an informal alliance among Great Britain, France, and Russia in the period before World War I. It opposed the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
The First Anglo-Boer War was a fight to keep sovereignty by the South African Republic against British invasion. When the British annexed Transvaal in 1877 the Boers were angered. In 1877, the Pedi attacked the Boers of Transvaal, and Boers claimed the British had not adequately assisted them. The British wished to bring Transvaal by force into a union, which furthered chances of war. There were several causes of the First Anglo-Boer War and the cause were the expansion of the British Empire, problems within the Transvaal government, the British annexation of the Transvaal and the Boer opposition to British rule in the Transvaal.
This stemmed from the fall of dictator Said Barre’s communist government. Within 2 months, 20,000 people were killed (Forrest 1). The fuel for this fire was inter-clan strife. The various clans were all vying to fill the vacuum formed by the fall of the government. Then, things got worst.
However, the British did try to revive their African empire in the late 40’s and early 50’s but their sudden fall into a steep imperial decline with the Suez crises saw individuals like Macmillan to acknowledge that decolonisation was the only way forward, as it would be more beneficial for Britain to decolonise than to resist the rise of nationalism. However, was the road to decolonisation solely due to the British economic decline or did African nationalist such as Kwame Nkrumah drove the British out of Africa? When looking at the colonization of British Africa, Cecil Rhodes played a major part with his British South African Company. His “Cape to Cairo” dream envisioned British rule stretching from south to north. Through the whole of Africa bringing trade opportunities for the British South African Company with it and the only way he saw this was possible was to colonise this land.
The civil war between the ethnic groups Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, like many civil wars in Africa, had colonial roots. However, the civil war took a extreme turn for the worst on a tragic day in April where thousands of Tutsis lost their lives in a relentless genocide that lasted a hundred days carried out by the Hutus. In this essay, I will explain the cause of the civil war, the 1994 genocide and the aftermath of the genocide. According to a articley called “Rwanda: How the Genocide Happeneded” in the BBC NEWS site, the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsi originated with the arrival of the Belgian colonist. Belgian colonial leaders and the Catholic Church deepened the racial divide between the majority Hutu populated country of Rwanda, by awarding Tutsi ethnic group better job and education opportunities.
Realizing that without power they could in no way influence the outcome of anything nationally or internationally Bismarck and Wilhelm held power in high importance. Therefore it was natural for Bismarck to want to become a European power, and eventually succeeded in becoming so. Because of this it was understandable that Wilhelm would want to continue on with Bismarck’s legacy and make Germany into a world power. The means in which Wilhelm II took to achieve this was to colonize Africa and to enlarge the German navy. By doing this Wilhelm aggravated Britain because they had the largest navy in the world and because Wilhelm was colonizing along the borders of British colonies.
In 1956 Sudan gained independence from Great Britain, but by then war was already starting between the north and the south. One cause to the starting of this war was the Sharia law(Sudan). The president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has been in office for 21 years. During these years Sudan has seen nothing but war, but removing Omar would only cause more conflict in Sudan. Omar’s government is under attack by combined armies of over 60,000 rebels.