WH: Unification, Nationalism, and Imperialism

Which of the following was the major player behind German unification?

• Austria
• Prussia
• Schleswig-Holstein
• Switzerland

What country was divided into the Dual-Monarchy in the late 1860s?

• Germany
• Italy
• Austria-Hungary
• Russia

Political feeling of areas being governed by people of similar cultures

• Russification
• Nationalism
• Nation-State
• Real Politik

Europeans countries extended military and political power over Africa, China, and other regions around the world to exploit them economically in a practice known as ______.

• Socialism
• Statism
• Imperialism
• Nationalism

Finish this sentence: “Western powers began to carve out ____________ along the Chinese coast. The British took the Chang River valley, the French took territories near Indochina.”

• Spheres of Influence
• Statism
• Political Priviledges
• Colonies

Britain forced China to allow its merchants to trade along the Chinese coast in a series of wars known as the ________.

• Colonial Wars
• Boxer Rebellion
• Nationalist Revolutions
• Opium Wars

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1900 siege of a foreign settlement in Beijing by Chinese nationalists who were angry at foreign involvement. 

• Boxer Rebellion
• Taiping Rebellion
• Beijing Rebellion
• Meiji Rebellion

(1884-1885) A meeting at which representatives from European Nations agreed upon rules for the European organization of Africa

• European Conference
• Berlin Conference
• African League
• League of Nations

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An application of Darwin's scientific theories of natural selection and the survival of the fittest to the struggle between nations and races; used in the late 1800s to justify imperialism and racism. 

• Communism
• Social Dawinism
• Socialism
• Social Theory

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Egyptian waterway connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas; built in 1869 by Franco-Egyptian Company; in 1875 Britain bought Egypt's share in the canal. 

• Suez Canal
• Panama Canal
• Berlin Conference
• Shaka Canal