Topic 4 of 6 · Form 5
International history: imperialism and the First World War
Motives for imperial expansion (economic, strategic, political, ideological); the Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference (1884–85); resistance and its outcomes; effects on international relations (Fashoda 1898, Moroccan crises).
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Imperialism
Motives for imperial expansion (economic, strategic, political, ideological); the Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference (1884–85); resistance and its outcomes; effects on international relations (Fashoda 1898, Moroccan crises).
Origins of the First World War
The alliance systems; Anglo-German naval rivalry; Weltpolitik; Balkan crises (1908, 1912–13); the July Crisis 1914; historians' debates (Fischer thesis on German war aims versus shared responsibility).
The Paris Peace Settlement (1919–20)
Aims of the peacemakers; terms of Versailles and the other treaties; reactions and problems; the mandate system.
Check yourself
- What was the Fischer thesis?
- What happened at Fashoda in 1898?
- What was the mandate system?
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- The argument that Germany deliberately sought war in 1914 to achieve expansionist aims.
- A confrontation between Britain and France over control of the Upper Nile, resolved diplomatically.
- Former German and Ottoman territories were administered by Allied powers under League of Nations supervision.
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