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Imperialism: · Congress of Vienna: Bring Peace After Napoleon Imperialism: ∙ Congress of Vienna: Bring peace after Napoleon, restoration of Aristocracy, the four great powers of Europe represented: Prussia, Austria, Great Britain, and Russia. Goals: international peace and the restoration of the old aristocracy, a clear support for Conservatism. Strengthen central government. ∙ Nationalism: Powerful force of change‐means love for one’s country, began to become associated ith a drive for independence, groups united by a common goal or language. ∙ Conflict between Liberals and Conservatives: Revolts by liberal (students) concerning the overbearing centralized philosophies of conservatives, later turned into a social conservative conflict. ∙ Revolutions in France in the 19th Century: (1830‐1848): in response to return to absolutism, revolutions began appearing. (first‐1830 Louis xviii, set continental examples) took up arms against kings. Took up arms against the king and sent him into exile. ∙ 1848: Year of the Revolution: more than fifty revolutions in this year. France as usual was the first and the most important of these revolutions, discontent with Louis Phillipes philosophy. Two opposite groups: the socialist liberals and the ultra conservatives who disagreed over such items as liberty and strength of government. ∙ Reform movements in the United States: Middle class revolutions concerning the ills of industrialization. Challenge from socialists and liberals. Suffrage movements, and muckrakers. ∙ Reform movements in Great Britain: 1. Electoral Reform: suffrage, expansion, no women suffrage. 2. Political parties: enhancing representation, taking advantage of the large number of new urban voters. 3. Social reform: unions/minimum wage/safety reforms. ∙ Summary Statement: a return to absolutism led to revolutions and a rebirth of enlightenment ideas‐socialism was becoming a major philosophy. A rising middle class acted as a buffer between the two classes and contributed to the order of the day. Labor unions and socialist movements prevented a return to the ancient aristocracy. ∙ Great Britain as the Imperialist Leader: For many of the same reasons as their dominance in industrialization. They had vast colonial resources, stable society and an industrial society. In addition they had a rebirth in enlightenment ideas. Dominated all regions of the world, Africa, North America, Asia, Latin America. Symbolized by the brilliance of the exhibition of 1851. ∙ The Crimean War: A continuation of Russia’s continuing desire for a warm water port. Warm water ports were obviously very important to Russia due to their poor climate. They tuned to the Mediteranean for this port and the Ottoman empire and the rest of the European powers allied against them in the hope of preventing a take over, and expansion into the balkans. ∙ German Unification: The keys: patriotism and nationalism. Nationalist feelings forces of Nationalism, and liberalism combined to key the rise of Otto Von Bismark who was given control by William. Rise of Prussian power amongst the 39 independent states, this led to the dominance of Prussia, and the seeds of their conflict with Austria. ∙ Otto Von Bismarck: Given control of Prussia and immediately began to focus on Realpolitick and a realistic approach to control. Don’t focus on ideas focus on action. He did this by immeidately baiting the Austrians (alliance) into a war with Denmark. Then claimed the southern lands creating a conflict with the Austrians baiting them into war, recognizing that they were the most powerful state standing in the way. Used this leverage to gain power amongst the southern states and create an alliance against France. Overran France with this help and subsequently united much of Germany as a result of his strength. ∙ Realpolitick: The Machiavellian philosophy of Otto von Bismark, that said that “whatever means necessary.” ∙ Creation of an Italian Nation: Divided, in a situation much like Germany. Started with revolutionary movements on Sicily, people began to push for a unified Italy. ∙ Causes of Imperialism: Economic causes: need for raw materials, new markets. Political and social causes: nationalism, missionaries, whiteman’s burden. ∙ Why Colonies? For all of the reasons mentioned above. Underlying theme competition in all of the above areas. ∙ Imperialist Tenstions: Resulting from the high reward competition between nations, all chasing Britain. “Sun never sets on the Britain”. Creates things like a balance of power and militarism, modern problems in an im‐modern time. Tensions existed also because of the changing face of Europe as well as the issue of Nationalism. Britain emerged as dominant. Led to the building of alliances and alliance structures that would plague the world for decades to come. ∙ German rivalries: Rivals to Germany, hostility arose out of their pursuit of empires. Led to a naval arms race, Britain’s island status afforded them this luxury. Spread to the rest of Europe. Spread to all areas, education and economics. ∙ Showdown at Fashoda: imperialist conflict that occurred in a territory south of Egypt, resulted in the fact that France had a substantial amount of land in the region ad did Britain. The resulting conflict came to a head, France wanting no part of a conflict with Great Britain backed down. ∙ The Boer War: at the Congress of Vienna, the Boers, South Africans of Dutch Descendant were placed under British Rule. The Boers were resentful and resisted British Rule, realizing this was futile they moved northward, and fought a tribe of Zulus. Defeated, the British officially recognized the two Boerish states. It was an uneasy alliance that eventually resulted in war after a failed British Coup. ∙ Morrocon Crisis: a triangle, Morocco wanted to remain independent, while Britain and France fought over who was to carve them up. 1904, an agreement: Britain would receive exclusive claim to Egypt, while France would receive a sphere of influence in Morocco. Germany began to mettle in this affair despite the fact that they were not involved. Germany bitter feelings. ∙ The three old empires of Eastern Europe: a growing trouble spot of rivalries. The Austrian, The Russian and The Ottoman empire were three such old rivalries, from the days of Empires. These regions were still dominated by feudalism and inequality. The problems consisted of Russian desire for warm water ports, as well as the growing conflicts between ethnic groups, particularly the Slavs, a conflict that still rages. The revolts and conflicts were based largely on nationalism and desire for independence. Ottomans ruled many of the Slavs who desired an independent nation or rule under a unified slavic Russian state. Treaty of San Stefano: independence for several Balkan states, as well as the right for Russia to gain an Aegean seaport in the Balkans. However, disdain for the treaty saw it revoked and Russia’s seaport taken away and British claiming Cyprus. ∙ Summary Statement: Illustrates the rise of and the importance of Imperialism. Discusses the many conflicts that arose out of this conflict and describes the rise of Nationalism, and the desire for self rule and independence. ∙ Changes in Spanish Imperial Policy: Spain gradually began to lose interest in the colonies as their economic productivity decreased so they began to turn the governments over to upper class residents of these colonies, a hands off policy “laissez‐faire” imperialism. ∙ Value of Colonies: Began to realize under Carlos III that the New World possessed amazing untapped agricultural potential, so the control that had been given to the colonies was about to be rescinded. ∙ Leaders of the struggle: the leaders of the colonies had begun to become influenced by the writers of the enlightenment period in the late 1700’s and had begun to formulate their own ideas on independence. First Latin American independence movement occurred on the island of Saint Dominique, a major sugar producer, as France began to assert it’s authority a slave revolt occurred, in the name of independence. Set the tone. ∙ Hidalgo and Mexican independence: this was an almost Marxian revolution of class struggle led by a priest Father Hidalgo. ∙ “Buffer State”: countries began to be established as a “neutral zone” between two conflicting countries. ∙ New nations developing: Uruguay a good example. ∙ Latin American struggle for Stability: As the revolutions unfolded, governments began to develop unfortunately a problem that developed was the governments were dominated by the upperclass and were marked by instability. The result of conflict between conservatives and liberals. In addition, the distinction that has stayed with the world ever since: lower to middle class liberals and upper class conservatives. ∙ Dependency and Development of Latin America? Latin America had as a result of it’s political and economic instability dependent on the western nations for aid and protection. This has been a trend that Lain America has been unable to shake. Dependency is a situation where a country, (or series of countries, Latin America in this case) has little control over their destiny. ∙ Imperialism by the Americas: the Monroe Doctrine. A warning established by US president James Monroe designed to keep Europe out of the New World the burgeoning sphere of influence of the United States. It said “we would oppose any attempt by a European power to establish political control in the Western Hemisphere.” ∙ Summary Statement: In this chapter we see the burgeoning crisis in Latin America created by the imperialist europeans and the subsequent
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