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Chapter 24: An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Atoms became part of new physics
    - - E=mc2 energies contained within atoms
      - Led to atomic age
  - - - "God is dead" + reject Christianity = superman (free)
  - - - Houston Stewart Chamberlain Germans ancestors of Aryans (creators of Western culture)
- - - - Maria Montessori: "new woman" = rational, scientific perspective + started schools
  - - - Fabian Socialists want workers to take House of Commons and pass legislation for labouring class
      - David Lloyd George increased taxes for wealthy + social reform = no laissez-faire (no gov. that governs least governs best)
    - - Italian politics corrupt = urban workers protested
- - - - European finance dominated
      - Imperialism = demise of capitalism
  - - - O.g. Dutch's = Dutch ancestors Boers angry
      - Cecil Rhodes found diamond and gold companies + goal all of Africa British
      - Boer War = British need more military and monetary investment (Transvaal self-gov. within Britain)
      - Interest in Suez Canal b/c of access to India
    - - One sided conflicts (military superiority + bad treatment)
  - - - Australia, New Zealand, and India
    - - Took over Asia (made agreement w/ British over divisions)
    - - "Open door" policy = one country doesn't restrict commerce of others in influence
    - - Japan won = annexed Korea
  - - - Colonialism = lose farmland or bad jobs
      - Segregation (inferiority)
    - - Annexed Chinese territory and ruled Korea
      - Asian power could play "white man's" game
    - - Indian wealth used for British military
      - Indians not equal to British (racism)
      - Nationalism + British violence and insensitivity = Indian National Congress for independence
- - - - Triple Alliance (German, Austria, Italy) and kept Russia in friendly terms = status quo
  - - - France and Russian military alliance
    - - Balkan League fought Ottomans (European powers couldn't decide how to divide up land)
      - Austria blocked Serbia's hope of independent Albania
      - Austria-Hungary convinced Serbia was a threat, France and Russia renewed alliance, Britain close to France = tensions