Chpt.36 Sect.5 Flashcards
1914
European colonial powers, US, Japan brought 85% world under control
Benefits of world domination
Orderly govs set up
Local wars stopped
Industry, agriculture, transportation were developed
Hospitals and schools built
Sanitation improved
Western ideas about democracy and indictable rights spread
Problems form imperialism
Ethnocentrism
Bitter feelings between colonists and colonizers
Colonists seldom allowed gov jobs, industry, armed forces
Not allowed in city areas where Europeans and North Americans lived
Lot of comp among colonial powers
Lead to future wars
Colonists blamed colonizer for
Loss of land
Forced labour on plantations and factories
Disliked cuz customs, languages, religions trying to be changed
Helped nationalism grow