What was the impact of imperial expansion on international relations? #2

Question 1

entente

Answer 1

• friendly understanding between states rather than a formal alliance.
  -The anglo-french entente was sometimes called the entente cordiale because it led to the restoration of good anglo-french relations

Question 2

triple entente

Answer 2

• an entente between three powers
• Entente Cordiale + Anglo Russian Agreement (not a formal alliance)

Question 3

triplice

Answer 3

an agreement between three powers to wrk together

Question 4

boxer

Answer 4

• a secret Chinese patriotic and nationalist organization
• the literal translation of boxer is ‘the righteous and harmonious fists’

Question 5

treaty powers

Answer 5

those powers which had signed treaties with China giving them territorial concessions and commercial privileges

Question 6

international law

Answer 6

law concerning international relations/ relations between states

Question 7

what and when was the first Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 7

• International crisis over the status of Morocco. Germany wanted to challenge France’s growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain.
  -1905-06

Question 8

When was the second Moroccan Crisis?

Answer 8

1911

Question 8

Effects of German unification in 1871

Answer 8

• New strong individual power
• Located right in the middle of europe

Question 9

Bismarck’s goals

Answer 9

• Isolate France
• Prevent war
• Secure German dominance in Europe

Question 10

Why was Bismarck afraid of war in Europe?

Answer 10

• French minister of war (General Georges Boulanger)
• Germany was powerful but still young
• Nationalism on the rise in many European nations

Question 12

Why were Austria and Russia both interested in the Balkans?

Answer 12

• Strategic and geopolitical position (central Europe, military positioning)
• Economic interests (eastern mediterranean- agricultural resources, access to key/potential trade routes)

Question 13

Why did Von Caprivi’s “new course” not work?

Answer 13

• Britain settles with Germany, but also with France and Russia
• Britain is happy to settle disputes, but not make long term agreemnts

Question 14

what was the 1904 “Entente Cordiale”?

Answer 14

• Negotiated by France’s Foreign Minister, Delcasse
  -Friendly agreement with Britain
  -France will accept British position in Egypt IF Britain will not interfere with French interests in
  Morocco
  -NOT an alliance

Question 15

Imperial Overstretch

Answer 15

term describing the pint when an empire has been overextended

Question 16

What are Britain’s primary focus areas?

Answer 16

• Egypt
• India
• South Africa

Question 17

Effects of the first Morocaon crisis

Answer 17

• Germany develops Schlieffen Plan
• France begins planning what do to if Germany invades

Question 18

Outcomes of second Moroccan crisis

Answer 18

• Britain strengths ties with France and Russia
• Germany becomes more isolated

Question 19

what was the Anglo-Russian agreement and when was it made?

Answer 19

• August 1907
• pact in which Britain and Russia settled their colonial disputes in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.

Question 20

few crucial events leading up to WW1

Answer 20

• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serb terrorists (28/06/1914)
• Austria declaring war on Serbia (28/06/1914)
• Germany declares war on Russia then France (01/08/1914 ,02/08/1914)
• Germany invade Belgium (08/04/1914)
• Britain grudgingly declares war on Germany

Question 21

What and when was the first opium war?

Answer 21

• 1839/42
• the increasing opium trade with the Western powers meant that for the first time, China imported more goods than it exported

Question 22

Why was Russia interested in China?

Answer 22

• Better access to the Pacific
• Ice-free port
• New Territory

Question 23

Jameson Raid

Answer 23

armed intervention in the transvaal led by the British politician in cape colony, Leander Starr Jameson, over the new year weekend of 1895-96