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IMPERIALISM - Coggle Diagram
IMPERIALISM
THE COLONIAL EMPIRES IN 1914
French Empire
Smaller than Great Britain
Areas in:
Island of Madagascar
North-West Africa
South- East Asia
America
French Guiana
Islands in the caribean
The British Empire
During 19th century
Extended it's area of influence to
Asia
Africa
America
Oceanía
Most important possesions
Australia
India
1877
Queen Victoria crowned empress of India
Colonial expansion acelerated
Established colonies when gained
Malta
Ceylon
Gibraltar
Maldives
Other countries with colonies in Africa
Italy
Eritrea
Part of Somalia
Libya
Belgium
Congo
Portugal
Mozambique
Angola
Germany
Togo
Cameroon
Namibia
Tanzania
Spain
Part of Shara
Equatorial Guinea
North Morocco
United States
Panama
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Hawaii
Russia
Central Asia
Siberia
Defeated by the Japanese
Japan
Korea
Manchuria
Russo- Japanese war 1904- 1905
THE COLONIAL EMPIRES
United States and Japan colonised:
Asia
Oceanía
Africa
Largest colonial empires belonged to:
France
Great Britain
Competed with each other for the
control of colonies in Africa and Asia.
Other industrialisated countries
built their colonial empires
between 1870 and 1914
OCCUPATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE COLONIES
Three stages
Occupation by conquest
Military advantage
Political and administrative control
Small group of europeans
Controlling indigenous rebelions
Organisation of the colonial economy
Exploitation of natural resources and indigenous population
Spicific value for the colonising country
Exploitation colonies
Exconomic value
Settler colonies
Socio-economic values
Protectorates
Areas of strategic interest
