The cold war was a diplomatic hostility between communism and capitalism. so ussr vs. USA. when soviets put the berlin blockade, this threatened usa. with the berlin airlift, soviets were mad that the USA was invading their territory. both the teams wants to spread their ideals throughout Europe which is what the cold war is.
Italy was not actually a unified country during that time period, it was instead comprised of many city-states (Milan, Venice etc.). Therefore Italy as a whole would not have been able to fund any of the explorers because they were not united as Italy. As well, because Italy was not unified, it was not as powerful as countries like Spain, France and England.
He is referencing the issue of slavery and the threat of it being outlawed in the United States. This fear was very real for southerners after President Abraham Lincoln was elected president in the election of 1860. Southerners feared that he would outlaw slavery across the United States.
This issue greatly affected the southern states, causing several of them to secede (leave) the US in order to form their own country. This would be called the Confederate State of America and this faction helps spark the Civil War.
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Japan emerged in 1853 from two and a half centuries of self-imposed peaceful isolation, but within a few decades the country’s leaders embarked on a policy of aggressive territorial expansion. During the last half of the nineteenth century, the Western imperialist powers of England, France, and Germany established the model for acquisition of colonies in Asia and for the partition of China into spheres of influence. Near the end of the century, about the same time Japan began to capture colonial territory, the United States and Russia also initiated their imperialistic expansion in Asia.This paper will examine four of the most influential theories of imperialism to determine whether they can provide explanations for Japan’s imperialism from 1894 to 1910, when Japan formally annexed Korea. The four theories to be reviewed will be Hobson's theory of domestic market underconsumption that leads to capitalists seeking profits overseas, Lenin's theory of the monopoly stage of capitalism, Schumpeter's theory of inherited warlike tendencies from prior generations, and nationalism's focus on politics as the critical factor. Although other theories of imperialism exist, these four theories cover a broad range of economic, political, and sociological factors that could explain Japan’s imperialistic expansion. This essay's review of Japan's history of imperialism from 1894 to 1910 will show that the theory of nationalism provides the best explanations of the causes of Japan's militaristic actions and colonial acquisitions, although Schumpeter's sociological-based theory seems to provide some explanation for the actions of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) leaders.</span>
