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cultural and religious—to spread the Christian faith and the ways of white “civilization” to the “dark” conti­ nent and beyond. ...

Eu rope in the Nineteenth Century 33 teenth century, British merchants began to trade with China for tea, silk, and porcelain, o ...

technology. As one famous apologist for colonialism put it: “Thank God that we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not.”^6 But ...

Eu rope in the Nineteenth Century 35 Eu r o pe ans by many Asians and Africans; this resentment continues to complicate peace, h ...

as Germany and Austria- Hungary an enhanced level of economic and strategic mobil- ity equal to that of maritime powers such as ...

Eu rope in the Nineteenth Century 37 wardness would affect it severely. As the war opened, Japa nese forces surrounded a key Rus ...

ghastly stalemate. Between 1914 and 1918, soldiers from more than a dozen countries endured the per sis tent degradation of tren ...

The Interwar Years and World War II 39 War I. With those empires went the conservative social order of Eu rope; in its place eme ...

the League was weakened by the fact that the United States— whose president Wood- row Wilson had been the League’s principal arc ...

The Interwar Years and World War II 41 World War II In the view of most Eu ro pe ans and many in the United States, Germany, and ...

signed a peace treaty with the Soviet Union that divided Poland between them, German forces stormed into Poland from the west wh ...

The Interwar Years and World War II 43 in history: Operation Barbarossa— its long- planned yet ill- fated invasion of the Soviet ...

“apes” or “monkey men.” As a result, they rarely took prisoners and were more com- fortable in undertaking massive strategic air ...

The Cold War 45 origins of the cold War The first and most impor tant outcome of World War II was the emergence of two superpowe ...

of individuals in the electoral pro cess; and an economic system, capitalism, that pro­ vided opportunities to individuals to pu ...

The Cold War 47 and inspired to great self- sacrifice by the ideals of nationalism. Victorious powers were forced—by local resis ...

Key Developments in the ColD War ■ Two superpowers emerge— the United States and the Soviet Union. They are divided by national ...

The Cold War 49 nam, Ethiopia versus Somalia) that, in all likelihood, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had intend ...

(CONTINUED) 1965 United States begins large- scale intervention in Vietnam. 1967 Israel defeats Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the ...

The Cold War 51 portion of the city to stem the tide of East Germans trying to leave the troubled state. U.S. president John F. ...