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Great Britain takes control of India. The seven year war ended. The Treaty of Paris sealed the deal at the end of the war. -
This was a huge milestone for all of mankind as it was among the first successful slave revolts. Led by Toussaint-Louverture. Took place in Haiti. -
Simon Bolivar was elected president with Francisco de Paula Santander vice president. This is where the nation of Gran Columbia was created. This was the first step of Simon Bolivar's uprise. -
in 1839 the opium war begins. their negan because China surprised the Opium trade. Doing this upset the British because they were exporting large amounts of Opium in China.
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the Opium war ends with the treaty of Nanking. China paid the British an indemnity and ceded the territory of Hong Kong. They also agreed to establish and "fair and reasonable" tariff. -
Chinese revolt against the Manchu leaders. Millions were killed. It is also considered a civil war. -
Commodore Perry opens up trade with Japan. He negotiated relentlessly for 7 months. The Chinese were closed for 2 centuries for trading. -
the Sepoy mutiny against British rule in India takes place. A Sepoy is an Indian soldier taking orders of a British or european leader. They got treated differently than the British soldiers. -
India comes under direct rule of Great Britain. Direct rule means a province is controlled by a central government. Many Indians struggled from extreme poverty due to the direct rule. -
Emperor Meiji started a political movement that involved the western. The western influence rubbed off on military, foreign policy, and constitution. It also returned control of the country to direct imperial rule. -
Great Britain gains control of the Suez Canal. They begin to establish a protectorate of Egypt. Britain got it in the "wake" of a financial crisis. -
The international conference was called for the Europeans to decide their guidelines for imperialism. They did this with complete disregard of the African people already settled there. The only independent land to still stand after was Ethiopia. -
Germany takes control of German East Africa, which was their "territory". Germany was among the first to take control after all was decided at the international conference. They had "authority" to establish trading routes. -
Belgium's main motivation to westernize Africa was Congo's rubber resource. They exploited the Africans for their resources. If they didn't do their work successfully the would be met with horrible punishments such a s cutting limbs or even execution . -
The boxer rebellion was against westerners. This was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, anti-Christian uprising. It began with peasants but the government later joined. -
Rudyard Kipling was an author for British newspapers. He wrote "The White Man's Burden". Which justified the belief that Europeans felt imperialism was their duty and chore to help other nations. -
The open door policy is proposed by the U.S. for China. The policy was thought to make less tension, competitiveness and even wars. The policy actually worked and there was less arguments over trading. -
Japan takes Korea and Port Arthur from Russia. Japan forced Russia to abandon their expansionist policy in East Africa. Japan was victorious. -
Union of South Africa is formed. 4 colonies joined together to create it. Intention of creating a self governing dominion in the British empire. -
The Manchu dynasty gets overthrown. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen is named president of the Chinese Republic. It was overthrown from a number of things but especially the imperialist policies.