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Africa Important People
Lenin Got inspired bye te imperialism in Africa
Trostky
David Livingstone Important explorer
Henry Morton Stanley Jornalist
James Monroe president of USA -
The American Colonization Society and the foundation of Liberia
The United States took part, marginally, in this enterprise, through the American Colonization Society (ACS), established in 1816 by Robert Finley. The ACS offered emigration to Liberia ("Land of the Free"), a colony founded in 1820, to free black slaves; emancipated slave Lott Cary actually became the first American Baptist missionary in Africa. This colonization attempt was resisted by the native people. -
The opening of Africa
The opening of Africa to Western exploration and exploitation had begun in earnest at the end of the eighteenth century. By 1835, Europeans had maped most of northwestern Africa. -
1848 Prussia
Had been the strongest of the states for a century. However, it was restrained by the combined strength of the other states, and, more importantly, by the influence of the neighboring Austrian Empire, which would not allow any German state to have too much power and become a possible rival. -
Expeditions
Arduous expeditions in the 1850s and 1860s by Richard Burton, John Speke and James Grant located the great central lakes and the source of the Nile. -
Firmado del acuerdo
Se acordó que Napoleón iba a proporcionar tropas para iniciar la guerra contra Austria. -
The restoration of Prussia
When the formidable statesman von Bismarck was appointed Minister-President of that country in 1862 his aims were revenge and the restoration of Prussia as a great European power. The first would come quickly. After effectively taking command of the country unconstitutionally he vastly improved the military for which Prussia would become famous, and managed to enlist the newly formed country of Italy to fight for him against their historic oppressor Austria. -
El Veneto
Austria pierde este territorio al perder contra los Prusos en la batalla de Sadowa, y se hace un trato para que los Prusos les entreguen el territorio de Veneto -
Franco-Prussian War
Was a conflict between France and Prussia, which was backed by the North German Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria. -
1871 Germany became a nation for the first time in history
after a nationalistic war against France masterminded by the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck. The ceremony took place in the palace of Versailles outside Paris rather than in Berlin – and this overt symbol of militarism and conquest would foreshadow the first half of the next century as the new nation became a major power in Europe. -
International African Association
David Livingstone's explorations, carried on by Henry Morton Stanley, galvanized the European nations into action. But at first, his ideas found little support, except from Léopold II of Belgium, who in 1876 had organized the International African Association. -
Triple Alliance
France occupied Tunisia in May 1881 (and Guinea in 1884), which partly convinced Italy to adhere in 1882 to the German-Austrian Dual Alliance, thus forming the Triple Alliance. The same year, Great Britain occupied the nominally Ottoman Egypt, which in turn ruled over the Sudan and parts of Somalia. -
Witwatersrand Gold Rush
The 1886 Witwatersrand Gold Rush, which lead to the foundation of Johannesburg and was a major factor of the Second Boer War in 1899, accounted for the "Conjunction of the superfluous money and of the superfluous manpower, which gave themselves their hand to quit together the country," which is in itself, according to Hannah Arendt, the new element of the imperialist era. -
French West Africa (AOF)
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Berlin Conference
In Africa (exclusive of what would become the Union of South Africa in 1909) the amount of capital investment by Europeans was relatively small, compared to other continents, before and after the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference. Consequently, the companies involved in tropical African commerce were relatively small, apart from Cecil Rhodes' De Beers Mining Company, who had carved out Rhodesia for himself, as Léopold II would exploit the Congo Free State. -
Italy vs Ottoman Empire
In 1911, it engaged in a war with the Ottoman Empire, in which it acquired Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (modern Libya). -
Italia es reconocido como país
Tras la ultima guerra que hubo entre prusianos y franceses en 1870, fue hasta 1929 que a Italia se le consideraría y reconocería como un país
