HIST 439 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Otto Von Bismarck, Congo River, Second Industrial Revolution
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What does boahen argue: certain moments of conflict that could have led to wwi. European state-building and the development of britain"s rivals: in the 1870s, germany and the united states emerged as major rivals to britain, leading the second industrial revolution, newly-unified germany marked its arrival by defeating france in the. Franco-prussian war, 1871: while germany and the us were ascendant, british, french, portuguese, and. The scramble begins: west africa, 1879: french investigate building a trans-saharan railway, and aim to push inland from. Senegal, where they had a coastal presence: both french and king leopold of belgium set out to make treaties with rulers in the. Congo river basin: british and portuguese freak out! They had long seen the congo as their trading grounds, so they ally against french and king leopold. Effective occupation clause encouraged europeans to claim african territories.
