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European Imperialism In Africa

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Over the time frame of six months, the World History B class traveled through more than two hundred years of, well, history. From imperialism in the late 1800’s to current events happening today and nearly everything in between.
To start, European powers claimed control of most of africa by force. The industrial revolution created an increased demand for resources and if europeans could do anything, they could conquer. They had repeating rifles, machine guns, war ships, the whole nine yards . . . well, for the time period. They were driven by nationalism, social darwinism, christian missionaries, and white man’s burden. Africa was helpless to europe’s path of destruction.
Oh, and russia. Where to even start with russia. It was completely …show more content…

Japan does go into a rebellious phase, but that not for a while. We’ll get to that later.
Meanwhile, China was addicted to drugs. Britain was the supplier and there was a whole war over whether Britain was allowed to force drugs onto the people of China or not. Britain won and got to make a crap-ton of money and it showed that China was able to be beaten.
“Let’s start a war to end all wars!” said a bunch of countries in europe. Ok, not really but this guy assassinated another guy that happened to be the archduke of austria and it started world war one. There were also a lot of secret alliances that left everyone pointing metaphorical guns at each other. It started with Germany, Austria-hungary, and the ottoman empire against France, Russia, and britain. Eventually the U.S. joined, but only because we wanted to make money off of selling weapons and germany sunk a ship carrying guns and sent a note to Mexico to attack us. They didn’t but . . . we didn’t really like the thought of it so into war we …show more content…

The allied powers won. Yay. the treaty of Versailles is signed and the seeds of world war two have been planted. Yay? No, that’s bad. Germany had to face punishments that made people angry and one of those people was Hitler. Oh, and Russia is communist now.
Japan again. Ultranationalism in the small island country came from the great depression. Oops, forgot to mention that. It was . . . a great depression. People were poor now and that made them sad, I guess? Anyways, Japan rejected the ‘ways of the west’. So did the Middle East, by the way.
So people were really mad about being poor and stuff so dictators took the opportunity to prey on the people’s needs and said that they’d fix everything. They didn’t. They usually ended up killing people.
Guess what. Our seeds of world war two started to sprout. There were planes, bombers, cannons, tanks, battleships, other ships, and don’t forget the troops on meth. After several years, civilian deaths, bombings, atomic bombings, more bombings, and some kamikazes, the war ended. The Allied Powers won yet

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