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Trade and Establishment
European and African trade and interaction begins ages before, but in 1835 Britain establishes itself in South Africa beginning major European colonization. -
European Percentage
By 1870 Europe controls 10% of Africa -
Berlin Conference
Between Nov 15, 1884 and Feb 26, 1885 European nations go to a conference in Berlin to establish regulations of European colonization of Africa to prevent future conflicts between European nations. -
Joseph Conrad Travels the Congo
In April of 1889 Conrad travels the Congo for the Danish company "Society Anonym Belge for the commerce of Congo." His journey and experiences would influence him to write his novella, Heart of Darkness. -
White Man's Burden
The poem, The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling, which tells about how it is the white man's job to educate the lesser and savage peoples of Africa is published. -
European Control
By 1900 almost all of Africa was colonized by European powers. -
Heart of Darkness
The novella, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, an anti-imperialist novella which shows the horrors of European presence in Africa is published. It is based around Conrad's experience on the Congo. -
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Switch from Heart of Darkness and White Man's Burden to Snow
Just a notification saying that the timeline splits here between imperialism and HoD and WMB to the Cold War Era based Snow, except for the decolonization of Africa which is still HoD and WMB -
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Decolonization of Africa
At the end of the second world war, European nations began to decolonize Africa and Asia. Some nations would achieve independence peacefully, some would need conflict to do so but all occurred at different times. -
Cold War Begins
After World War 2 tensions rose over conflicting ideologies between the U.S. and the Soviet Union which would lead to a near 50 year long arms race. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In October of 1962, U.S. spy planes found Soviet missiles in Cuba, fearing missiles that close to home the U.S. began blockading Cuba to keep the Soviets out. After two tense weeks the Soviets agreed to remove the missiles. It was the closest the world had gotten to World War 3. -
Cold War Ends
The Cold War ends in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. -
Snow
Snow, an excerpt from Julia Alvarez's book "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" published in 1991, based in the 1960's Snow tells of a young immigrant girl from the Dominican Republic seeing snow for the first time and confusing it with an attack.
