is for Afrikaners

Afrikaners were the descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in South Africa.

is for Berlin Conference

The Berlin Conference was a meeting of European leaders in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in Sub-Saharan Africa.

is for China

China participated in the Tai Ping rebellion.

is for Dutch

The Dutch were a major player in Asian imperialism.

is for Emigration

The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

is for France

With Bismarks tactics, the French tried to take control of other parts of the world.

is for Gunboat Diplomacy

The use or treat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements.

is for Hundred Days of Reform

A series of Western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge.

is for Imperialism

Imperialism in European countries caused many conflicts, leading up to World War I

is for Japan

In the Japanese Meji Restoration the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to subsequent modernization of Japan.

is for Kipling

Rudyard Kipling wrote a famous poem called The White Man's Burden.

is for Lenin

Lenin concluded that imperialism represented the highest stage of advanced monopoly capitalism.

is for Meiji Restoration

The restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan.

is for Nativism

Policies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass migration, the give preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants.

is for Opium War

Two mid-nineteenth-century conflicts between China and Great Britian over the British trade of opium, which was designed to "open" China to European free trade. In defeat, China gave European traders and missionaries increased protection and concession.

is for Population Pressure

The growing number of Europeans provided further impetus for western expansion and drove more people to emigrate.