Revised 2011

What is Imperialism? Policy used by some nations to take over other nations

Why do countries imperialize?  Raw materials/natural resources  New markets for finished products  Spread western civilization Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden” Social Darwinism  Convert people to Christianity  Establish military bases and overseas ports  Increase the power and influence of the controlling nations  Nationalism/desire to become a world power

Impact on People in Controlled Areas  Could not rule themselves  Language, religion, and culture were forced upon them by ruling nations  Gave up natural resources without compensation  Literacy rates went up as education improved  Health standards improves

How did the U.S. become an imperial power?  Alaska  Hawaii  Spanish- American war (1898) Cuba ○ Teller Amendment ○ Platt Amendment Puerto Rico ○ Foraker Act Guam Philippines

Resistance to Imperialism  What arguments may be made for and against imperialism?  Many people rebelled in the imperialized countries. Boxer Rebellion in China Gandhi’s non-violent protest movement against British in India Filipino Rebellion against the U.S.

How did the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I impact foreign policy?  Germany had to take the blame for WWI  Took territory from Germany  Germany had to pay reparations, leading to economic and political instability  Germans had deep resentment for the Treaty of Versailles

Between the World Wars  World wide depression created political and economic stability in many countries  Rise of dictatorships: Why? Hitler and Germany Stalin and USSR Mussolini and Italy Franco and Spain Tojo and Japan

The Failure of the League of Nations leads to World War II  U.S. remained isolated and did not join  Weak organization and could not stop the rise of totalitarian nations  Great Britain and France failed with the policy of appeasement  Germany attacked Poland in 1939 and Britain and France followed the attack with a declaration of war  U.S. to enter in December of 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor

Results of World War II  Ended in 1945 with the U.S. dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki  Marshall Plan  Differing intentions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union would lead to the Cold War  The U.S. and its allies formed NATO  The Soviet Union and its allies (“Satellites”) formed the Warsaw Pact Churchill would state that “an iron curtain had descended upon Europe”

Events of the Cold War  Truman Doctrine and Containment  Berlin Blockade  Atomic weapons and the arms race  Communist Revolution in China  The Korean Conflict  McCarthyism  The Cuban Missile Crisis  The Vietnam War  The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, leading to the reunification of Germany

U.S. Domestic Affairs in the 1920s  Red Scare  Women’s right to vote  The Great Migration  Immigration Restrictions  Revival of the Ku Klux Klan  Roaring 20s  Harlem Renaissance  Stock Market Speculation  Stock Market Crash

U.S. Domestic Policy in the 1930s  Great Depression  New Deal (Relief, Recovery, Reform)  Dust Bowl

U.S. Domestic Policy  U.S. in World War II  Home Front  Industrial Mobilization  Women and Minorities in the Workforce  Rationing  Internment of Japanese- Americans

U.S. Domestic Policy Present  Postwar Prosperity  McCarthyism  Space Race  Immigration Patterns (Sun Belt, Rust Belt)  Antiwar protest  Counterculture Movement  Women’s Liberation Movement  Civil Rights Movement