Imperialism

We want your stuff!

Opium Wars
1700 The Dutch export Indian opium to China 1793 The British East India Company establishes a monopoly

First Opium War

1827 E. Merck & Company of Germany begins commercial manufacturing of morphine 1839 import of opium stopped; British send warships to China

First Opium War

1841 The Chinese pay the British restitution Hong Kong is ceded to the British

What happens to opium?

1895 The Bayer Company of Germany Diacetylmorphine - Heroin

Heroin Ad

Open Door Policy

Western Powers Control of China

Taiping Rebellion
More than 20 million people died Hong Xiaquan - younger brother of Christ The Heavenly Kingdom of Peace

Boxer Rebellion 1899-1901

Movement against European control and Christianity The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (dubbed by the West as Boxers)

President Rutherford B Hayes 1880

protecting our economic interests around the world Use the navy to open the resources of Japan, Russia, China, and the East Indies

U.S. Imperialism
U.S. annexes Hawaii in 1898 Roosevelt- Filipinos were Godless savages 200,000+ Filipinos put into concentration camps

Scramble for Africa

Belgian Congo Genocide

King Leopold II More than 10 million people killed

Bismarck
Realpolitik practical thought Blood and Iron

Bismarck
First pension program First welfare programs Modern education system Influenced both Britain and America

Boer Wars 1899-1902

England vs Netherlands The Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic Enormous resources (gold)

Boer Wars
Britain -28,000 soldiers died from either disease or starvation More than 100,000 civilians put into concentration camps

After the wars

40% -physically unfit Slums Welfare system

School lunch programs

Hegelian Dialectic
Philosophical argument consisting of: Thesis Antithesis Synthesis

Hegelian Dialectic
Opposing forces clash Gradualism Turning Points Changes

Dialectic
Thesis: Free Market Capitalism Antithesis: Socialism Synthesis: Fascism