A | B |
Boer War | struggle between Boers and British in South Africa |
Boers | Dutch settlers in South Africa |
Simon Bolivar | led Latin America's fight for independence |
Egypt | occupied by Britian to maintain control over the Suez canal |
Opium War | fought between China and Britain to force sale of British opium onto China |
Elizabeth Pankhurst | Feminist who advocated violence to attain rights for women |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | famous Suffragette |
Social Darwinism | Idea that "survival of the fittest" applied to who became rich or poor |
India | jewel in the British Crown |
Queen Victoria | Monarch of Great Britian during most of the 19th Century |
the Congo | pillaged by Europeans for its rubber |
Otto Von Bismarck | unified Germany in his attempt to protect Prussia |
King Leopold II | ruled the Belgian Congo |
Sepoys | Indian soldiers that fought in the British army |