Long-Term Causes of WW1: Imperialism and Nationalism, Esquemas y mapas conceptuales de Historia

¡Descarga Long-Term Causes of WW1: Imperialism and Nationalism y más Esquemas y mapas conceptuales en PDF de Historia solo en Docsity! Í LONG-TERM CAUSES OF WW1 ] [ IMPERIALISM ] What is meant by...? - IMPERIALISM - When a country increases its power and wealth by bringing additional territories under its control - EMPIRE - An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme power - COLONY - A country or area controlled by one powerful country that's far away - Why did powerful countries want colonies? - -Raw materials -Food -Precious minerals -Cheap labour -Prestige -Power -Markets for the industrialized products -Strategical reasons - How did imperialism make the war start? - The competition for colonies was another source of international antagonism. With the rise of industrialism countries needed new markets to sell their products and to obtain raw materials Africa and Asia were points of dispute among the European countries. By 1900 the British Empire extended over 5 continents and France had control of large areas of Africa. The amounts of land owned by Britain and France increased the rivalry with Germany who had entered the race to acquire colonies late and only had small areas of Africa