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| This phrase is often used to sum up the Western attitude toward non-Western people. |
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| A canal connecting the mediterranian sea and the Red sea |
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| Muhammad Ahmad called himself this. A title meaning "the expected one" . |
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| Led a revolt against the french in senegal. He continued fighting off and on from 1883 until 1898 wen he was finally captured. |
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| Journalist, fueled interest in central Africa. In 1869 the New York Herald hired Stanley to find Dr. David Livingstone, a missionary who had dissapeared in central Africa. In 1871 Stanley finally found him, with a greeting that became famous throughout the out the world: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" |
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| King of Belgium. Leopold, acting as a private citizen, carved out a personal colony of 900,000 square miles. |
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| Descendents of the original Dutch settlers |
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| British businessman, led the move inland from Cape Colony. |
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| In 1899, known to modern South Africans as the South African War, the BOER WAR broke out. |
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| Emperor of Ethiopia, negotiated a treaty with Italy. |
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| In 1868 a group of samurai overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate. Then they returned the emperor to power. This change is called the MEIJI RESTORATION. |
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| The new constitution also created a two-house national assembly called the DIET. |
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| In 1894 a rebellion broke out. The rebels wanted their people to be free from Chinese control. Both Japan and China sent armed forces to Korea. The situation exploded into the SINO-JAPANESE WAR. |
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| The TREATY OF SHIMONOSEKI ended the the Sino-Japanese War. China was forced to give Korea its independence. Japan gained control of Taiwan (Formosa) and some other small islands next to it. Japan also gained control of an area along the coast of Manchuria. In addition, Japan won the right to trade in China. This war between Japan and China marked the beginning of Japan as a major world power. |
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| King of Siam, ascended to power in 1851, was particularly good at such diplomacy. MONGKUT studied Western ideas to understand his enemies and help modernize his country. |
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| Hawii's Queen, did not want foreigners to control Hawii. She tried tp change the treaties that allowed them to stay. In 1893 the business leaders gained enough power to end the queen's reign. The United States took over Hawii in 1898. |
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| Led the Filipinos in a fight for independence. |
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| An american battleship, exploded in Havana harbor, killing some 260 Americans. The MAINE had been sent to Cuba to protect American citizens and their property. No one knew the cause of the explosion. Many in the United States assumed that the Spanish were to blame. |
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| This amendment said that Cuba could not transfer any land except to the United States. In addition, it gave the United States the right to intervene in Cuba. |
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| a canal, one of the worlds greatest engineering feats. |
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| a Cuban doctor discovered that mosquitoes carry yellow fever. |
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| In 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt said that if the independence of any country in the Western Hemisphere were in danger, the United States would act to prevent other countries from entering. Also, the United States would make sure that Latin American countries would repay their loans. |
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| By 1910 he had been dictator for more than 30 years. DIAZ had allowed foreign companies to take many of Mexico's natural resources. He had also allowed rich Mexicans to control much of the country's land. Most of the people were poor. They had no land of their own. In 1910 DIAZ jailed Fransisco Indalecio Madero, his opponent for the presidency. When that happened, a popular rebellion against the rule of PORFIRIO DIAZ broke out in Mexico. The rebellion quickly spread throughout the country and soon became a general revolt against the government. |
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| In 1913 VICTORIANO HUERTA, a memeber of Fransisco Indalecio Madero's own government, betrayed Madero and seized control of the government. Madero was taken prisoner and shot. This murder caused more rebellion. |
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| He led a revolt against Huerta that eventually developed into a violent civil war. The war dragged on for several years, and over one million lives were lost. |
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| The peasant leader,he voiced the peasant's demands. |
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| The colorful rebel leader, continued to fight Carranza for control of the revolution. VILLA led effective guerrilla attacks against the new government. He also attacked large landowners in Mexico, taking property and money to finance and supply the revolutionary army. In 1916, for reasons that are still not clearly understood, VILLA moved his troops across the border into the United States. He raided the small town of Columbus, New Mexico, killing more than a dozen americans. President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly sent troops under the command of General John Pershing into Mexico to capture Villa. As the U.S. force went deeper into Mexico, Carranza's government became more and more concerned. For a time there was a threat of war between Mexico and the United States. In 1917, however, the United States withdrew its troops from Mexico. Americans had started to pay attention to the world war that was taking place in europe. |
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