The West in the World Test Bank Questions with Answers AP Edition
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First world - Answers Industrialized, high standard of living, high workers wages, longer life span and lower infant mortality, health is better, stable government, tend to be democratic
Second world - Answers Mid-range, not very strong government, communists
Third world - Answers More agricultur...
The West in the World Test Bank Questions with Answers AP Edition
First world - Answers Industrialized, high standard of living, high workers wages, longer life span and
lower infant mortality, health is better, stable government, tend to be democratic
Second world - Answers Mid-range, not very strong government, communists
Third world - Answers More agricultural, poorer, lack of education, shorter life span, not as
industrialized, less stable government, greater ratio of dictatorships
Opium wars (1839-1849, 1856-1860) - Answers Two mid-19th century conflicts between China and
Great Britain over the British trade, which was designed to "open" China to European free trade; in
defeat, China gave European traders and missionaries increased protection and concessions
Treaty of Nanking (1842) - Answers End of the Opium Wars in which China was required to cede the
island of Hong Kong to Britain forever, pay an indemnity of $100 million, and open up four large cities to
unlimited foreign trade with low tariffs
Commodore Matthew Perry - Answers Steamed into Edo Bay in 1853 and demanded diplomatic
negotiations with the Japanese emperor
gunboat diplomacy - Answers The use of threat of military force to coerce a government into economic
or political agreements
Great migration - Answers Period of time in which Europeans looked outward to the non-Western world
to settle down due to the increase of economic success in Europe, and therefore lack of opportunity
Nativism - Answers Policies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass
migration, that give preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants
new imperialism - Answers The late-19th-century drive by European countries to create bast political
empires abroad
Afrikaners - Answers Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in Southern Africa
Berlin Conference - Answers A meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down
some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa
Scramble for Africa - Answers The invasion, occupation, division, colonization, and annexation of African
territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914
Cecil Rhodes - Answers Led British troops in the Cape Colony to establish protectorates over
Bechuanaland and Rhodesia, and developed rich gold mines in the Transvaal
Leopold II of Belgium (r. 1865-1909) - Answers An energetic, strong-willed monarch of a tiny country
with a lust for distant territory
, General Horatio H. Kitchener - Answers British general who led the conquest of Sudan at Omdurman and
Fashoda using the Maxim machine gun
Omdurman (1898) - Answers Battle between British troops and Sudanese Muslim troops by the Nile
River, along which the British were up,ding a railroad; the Sudanese troops were massacred by the
Maxim machine gun that greatly out-performed them
Fashoda (1898) - Answers Confrontation of Britain by France that resulted in diplomatic crisis and a
threat of war between the two Great Powers; the French eventually backed down and withdrew its
forces, allowing Britian to take over the area
Social Darwinism - Answers Justification for imperialism and theory that stated that stronger nations had
to seize weaker nations in order to prove strength and virility
Rudyard Kipling - Answers Perhaps the most influential British writer of the 1890s who write of Anglo-
Indian life, his ideas summed up in his poem "The White Man's Burden"
The White Man's Burden (1899) - Answers Poem of encouragement for US occupation of the Philippines
in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and justification of Western imperialism in general
white man's burden - Answers The idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive
nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements
and higher standards of living
Orientalism - Answers A term coined by literary scholar Edward said to describe the way Westerners
misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures
J.A. Hobson - Answers Radical English economist who wrote Imperialism
Imperialism (1902) - Answers (Book) criticism of imperialism that contended that the rush to acquire
colonies was due to the economic needs of unregulated capitalism, but just profited special-interest
groups and diverted attention from the domestic reform and need to reduce the class gap
Lenin - Answers Russian Marxist and revolutionary leader who concluded that imperialism represented
the "highest stage" of advanced monopoly capitalism and predicted that it's onset signaled the coming
decay and collapse of capitalist society
Great Sepoy Rebellion (1857-1858) - Answers The 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu
mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being
crushed
Meiji Restoration - Answers The restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the
subsequent modernization of Japan
Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) - Answers Fought between the Qing Empire and the empire of another
country, primarily over control of Korea
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