Write a discussion paper on Indian railroads , by 1870 the fifth largest in the world,

Write a discussion paper on Indian railroads , by 1870 the fifth largest in the world, (select all that apply)

a. were owned by British companies
b. were constructed with British rails and equipment
c. were orginally designed to serve British commerce
d. paid dividends to British investors
e. were managed by British and other Europeans in all top positions
f. were staffed by 99% British employees

2. Second great wave of imperialism after 1850 utilized the following technological developments: (select all that apply)

a. Accurate and powerful rifles and cannons
b. New processes for producing cheap and adundant steel, used for ships
c. Airplanes
d. New explosives, including dynamite and others.
e. Nucelar weapons
f. Diesel engines

3. The Berlin Conference on Africa (1884 and 1885) (select all that apply)

a. Was initiated by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck to partition Africa European colonial powers
b. Agreed to the “effective oppupation” of all Africa, to replace previous trading relations.
c. Agreed that all European colonial powers must send troops to Africa.
d. Called for an end to slave trade from Africa.
e. Sought to incorporate all of Africa into the German Empire.
f. Sought to create a dialogue between European and African nations.

4. The mandate system:

a. Benefited victorious great powers, allowing them to keep their colonies, and disturbing former German and Ottoman
possessions, all under the asserted supervision of the League of Nations.
b. Gave to all colonies national self-determination under the auspices of the League of Nations.
c. Mandated that all nations were equal in the League of Nations
d. Mandated that the League of Nations had no right to interfere with any colonies.

5. At the beginning of the twentieth century, due to their rapidly increasing industrial and military power, the following nations joined England and France as “Great Powers”: (select all that apply)
a. Germany
b. Russia
c. Portugal
d. United States
e. Netherlands
f. Japan
g. Spain

6. The United States became increasingly imperialistic under President McKinley, acquiring Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico. The U.S. army occupation of the Philippines included: (select all that apply)

a. Forcing the Filipinos into “reconcentration camps”
b. Torturing prisoners
c. Loss of 200,000 Filipino and 5,000 American lives
d. Burning villages and crops

7. Approximately 9 million to 10 million soldiers died in World War I, including approximately: (select all that. apply)

a. 1 million from the Unuted States
b. 1.7 million Russians
c. 1.7 millon Frenchmen
d. 1 million from the Bristish Empire
e. 1.5 million from Austria- Hungary
f. 1 million from Japan
g. 2 million Germans

8. Following the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, Lenin implemented the New Economic Policy in 1923, which included the following:
(select all that apply)

a. Closing all free markets
b. keeping large banks, railroads, and factories under government ownership
c. banning peasants from selling any crops
d. banning peasants from owning any land
e. banning all small private enterprises

9. In World war 1, the United States: (select all that apply)

a. remianed neutral for the first two and one-half years, doing enormous business supplying France and Britain
b. Was the only great power to grow rich due to the war
c. Sacrificed economically to support the Allies’ victory
d. Entered the war in 1917, with U.S. war industry businesses making enormous profits

10. Industrial Revolution just before the 20th century was due to the emergence of entirely new technologies, including most notably the following: (select all that apply)

a. Chemical industry
b. Telescopes
c. Airplanes
d. Electricity
e. Steel industry
f. Plastics

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