1. CHAPTER 25 IMPERIALISM
 1. In the 1800's and early 1900's the European world had come so far. The have become so great in their own countries that they felt the need to expand to new places. That meant that economic growth along with other reasons caused power nations in Europe to become imperialistic over Third World countries. Countries like England, France and others would attempt to take over countries like Africa and China for economic, religious and racist reasons. Some of these countries would rebel and become stronger.

2.Chapter objective: To see how the European countries would take over other countries and why. To see how the other countries would response to colonization and what would become of them after.

3. What were some main causes of Imperialism?

Well there were three main causes. The first would be economic, many nations wanted to expand and become richer so they would take small countries for resources and new markets. A second reason would be religion. They believed that they had to spread their religion. The final reason was racism, in which they thought they had to cleanse the countries and educate them and so on.

2.This image shows the victor Japan taking it's prize Korea after defeating China in it's imperial conquest for Korea. The artist opinion is that Japan is a rude brute walking all over Korea in a sense that it's using Korea. You can tell this by the fact that Japan is walking all over the poor man and he is just giving up to Japan. My response it that of agreement with the author because I know that when a nation fought for a smaller nation, it was often to use that country for economic reasons or as a way to have more power. More land equaled more power.








This image here shows how England was involved in imperialism. It shows a British man grabbing up all the land possible. The artist's opinion is that England was an imperialistic monster for her drew him as a sea monster. He also thinks that England was incredibly greedy because he is taking so much and the fact that it's England alone in this picture, no other imperial nations. My response is that England was a major imperial nation, but I do not see them as a monster because they were only doing what was custom of the time. I mean sure they did some really bad and nasty things but it isn't the worse that's ever been done.

4.US and Imperialism.

The US was definitely imperialistic and today it has imperial under tones but we could not get away with it today so it cannot be imperialistic anymore. But in the past it was.

Pros

• The open door policy, which would make imperial nations share China and not have one entirely in control. This was good because nobody controlled China, they just had a presence there.
• The Gunboat Diplomacy forced Japan to open it's ports to the US for trade. At first it wasn't good, but after a while it would be good because it modernized Japan.
• Spanish-American war led to the Treaty of Paris gaining the US Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

Cons

• Falsifying the explosion of the Maine to use force to gain Cuba.
• Countries that disagreed with US control like the Philippines causing more war.
• Using bad reasons to take over small countries. Reasons like religious missionaries.

5. US Events during Imperialism

• In 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed to end the Spanish-American war which gave the Philippine's to the U.S. The Philippine revolutionaries did not recognize this treaty and would fight the U.S. for their independence. They would declare war against the United States in 1899. An end to the war would be declared in 1902 but fighting would go on till 1913. The US would eventually give them independence after WWII after the US would have to fight Japan for them back in 1946. This was imperialism at it's finest. The US was fighting for and gained the Philippines just like all the other European countries.

• Another country that was given to the US from the Treaty of Paris by Spain after a payment of $20 million as compensation was, Cuba. But Spain didn't hand over Cuba completely because the did not ceded it to the US. So that made the US a protectorate of Cuba. Like the other three countries, Cuba was under US military control. Eventually in 1902, Cuba gained it's own independence. Again it was imperialism because the US was grabbing up the land like all of Europe at the time.

6. One major uprising out of the several was in Japan. Well when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived and gave his gunboat diplomacy, the Shogun and the other Samurais greatly opposed this. They responded with lots of anti-foreign terrorism. Well the US, British, Dutch and French responded to that by wiping out many of their important forts. Later in 1867, there was a coalition led by samurais that seized control of the government with minimal bloodshed and returned the power back to the emperor, this was known as the Meiji Restoration. They then continued to fight the foreigners under a untied Japan by getting rid of their feudal system.





=======================================================================7. The April 6 Youth Movement.

A facebook movement supporting the workers of El-Mahalla El-Kubra, who were planing a strike on April 6. They asked people to stay home and wear black for the strike.

Leaders of this small rebellion are, Ahmed Maher, Mohammed Adel, Waleed Rashed and Asmaa Mahfouz.
Many of the followers and leaders were arrested sometimes more than once.

Over all this movement has not really gained anything meaning it has so far been unsuccessful.

8. Spotlight- Suez Canal.


The Suez Canal, also called the highway to India, is very important as it serves as an important pathway from Europe to Asia or vise versa to transport goods. It is used every day by several ships transporting items back and forth. Since shipping goods is still very popular, it adds to the importance of this canal. Currently it is under Egypt's control of the Suez Canal Authority group under Admiral Ahmed Ali Fadel since 1996 to today.

9. 3-2-1

Three things I learned.

• Imperialism was based off of economic goals.
• Britain was a big imperial nation. Bigger than most, snatching up the most land.
• Some Third World Countries, become stronger and bigger like the countries that colonized them. For example, India.

Two things I found interesting

• How some people would just accept the harsh and unfair terms of imperial countries, like the people on the Niger River did.
• It was interesting that Germany wasn't number one on imperialism because of the events that would follow.

One question I have

• Why would some countries just submit to the unfair regulations and laws of the imperialistic nations?