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Revision note: Colonisation, Imperialism and Decolonisation

  • New Imperialism 1870–1914: raw materials, markets, capital (Hobson, Lenin), prestige, Social Darwinism, Maxim gun, quinine
  • Berlin Conference 1884–85; only Ethiopia (Adwa 1896) and Liberia free; Leopold II's Congo; Herero genocide
  • China: Opium Wars, Nanking 1842, Open Door 1899, Boxer 1900; Japan beat Russia 1904–05, annexed Korea 1910
  • Decolonisation: India 1947, Indonesia 1949, Dien Bien Phu 1954, Ghana 1957 (Nkrumah), Year of Africa 1960, Algeria 1962, Mandela 1994
  • UN Resolution 1514 (1960); Bandung 1955; neo-colonialism (Nkrumah)
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