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Imperial Preference. 1932-58. British movement for preferential tarrifs within British Empire.
Ottawa Conference. 1932. British Empire creates Imperial Preference during Depression.
Tariff Reform League. 1903-6. Chamberlain presses for Imperial Preference.
Bennett, Richard B. 1870-1947. Canadian Conservative Prime Minister 1930-5. Advocated Empire Free Trade. Imperial Conference 1932.
Borden, Robert. 1854-1937. Canadian Cons Prime Minister 1911-20. Union Gov’t. Imperial War Cabinet. Women suffrage.
Chamberlain, Joseph. 1836-1914. English imperialist politician.
Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.
Eugène of Savoy, Prince. 1663-1736. French General of H.R. Imperial armies. Defeated Turks in Vienna and Hungary.
Fabergé, Peter. 1846-1920. Russian jeweller. Imperial Easter Eggs 1884-1917.
Gallon. 1707 Queen Anne’s wine gallon=US gallon (231 cubic inches). 1824 Imperial gallon defined as 10 pounds of water.
Hobson, John. 1858-1940. British pre-Keynesian economist. Imperialism 1902.
Imperial Conferences. 1907-37. Meetings of British Empire/Commonwealth countries.
Imperialism. 19C European movement to expand control over larger territories.
Kipling, Rudyard. 1865-1936. English/Indian writer. Compelling, emotional, poetic. Jungle Book 1894. Kim 1901. Imperialist:- “White Man’s Burden”.
Kremlin. 1156 walled city. Moscow Imperial Palace to 1712. Now houses Russian government.
Marshall Plan. 1948-52. European Recovery Program. US supplied $12B goods, loans, grants. Rejected by COMECON as ’dollar imperialism’.
Nationalism. 17-20C. Sociopolitical movement stressing individual’s loyalty to his state. 19C Led to Imperialism. 20C Fascism and Nazism.
Reichstag. Ruling body of HRE and German states. = Imperial Diet.
Russo-Japanese War. 1904-5. Unsuccessful attempt to limit Japanese Imperialism. A cause of Russian Revolution 1905.
Salisbury, Third Marquess. 1830-1903. British Imperialist Prime Minister 1885~1902. Fashoda. Boer War. Splendid Isolation.
Stalin, Joseph. 1879-1953. Soviet bloodthirsty revolutionary. Leader 1924-. 5 Year Plans modernized Russia. 1928 Collectivization. 1932- Dictator. 1936-8 Purge. Turned Marxism to Nationalism and Imperialism. World Socialist Revolution under USSR. 1952 abolished Politburo.
Taisho. 1879-1926. Japanese Emperor 1912-. Modernization, liberalism, imperialism.
Three Principles of the People. 1923. Sun Yat-sen: Nationalism, freedom from Imperial rule; Democracy; Livelihood.