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socialism is the only way to a nation’s prosperity. Also known as Communism | Marxist Theory: |
began in 1881, when France moved into Tunis with Bismarck's encouragement. After centuries of neglect, Europeans began to expand their influence into Africa. Soon, it took on a full-fledged land grab in Africa by European Powers. | “Scramble for Africa”: |
The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa. | Berlin Conference: |
Only countries that don't fall to colonialism during scramble for Africa | Liberia/Ethiopia: |
One of the few regions in Africa unoccupied by the Europeans. | Coptic Christian Kingdom: |
was a powerful state in West Africa in the years prior to European colonization. It was located in what is today southern and central Ghana. | Ashanti Kingdom: |
Dutch settlers that move into interior of South Africa, later conflict with Zulus and British | Boers/Afrikaners: |
the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in Africa. The Boer Wars was the name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and | Boer War: |
widely credited with transforming the Zulu tribe, from a small clan, into the beginnings of a nation that held sway over that portion of Southern Africa between the Phongolo and Mzimkhulu rivers. | Shaka Zulu: |
founded to defend the rights of the black majority | African National Congress: |
Egyptian ruler who caused Egypt to industrialize | Muhammad Ali: |
a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea | Suez Canal: |
An infectious disease characterized by cycles of chills, fever, and sweating - cure leads to colonization on African interior. | quinine/malaria: |
conflict between tribes. | intertribal warfare: |
The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. | genocide: |
social theory by Darwin on evolution applied to determine social class (the strong survives, the weak doesn’t, Europeans= the best) | social Darwinism: |
system of government in which every one is equal, property is owned by the government | communism: |
a political philosophy supporting the right and power of the people in their struggle against he privileged elite. | populism: |
Economic system, where means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned, profits gained in free market | capitalism: |
system of government, under authority of a dictator, through suppression of the opposition by means of terror and censorship | fascism: |
system for international peace. | collective security: |
A prohibition by a government on certain/all trade with a foreign nation - method of pressuring a nation diplomatically | embargo: |
revolution in that allowed the increasing availability of information due to the use of things like computers, Internet and other technologies. | information revolution: |
a worldwide economic downfall, started in 1929, but different time in differet countries. Basically all countries were affected, worst hit was the industrialized countries like the US. | world depression: |
political leader of India, played a key role in gaining independence for India through non-violent protest, boycott. | Mohandas Gandhi: |
leader of Germany, and Nazi party. He started WWII in Europe | Adolf Hitler: |
founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of Russian revolution, first leader of USSR. | Vladimir Lenin: |