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India y Algeria
England conquered India and France began the conquest of Algeria. -
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Opium Wars
Were two wars that lasted from 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 respectively, the highlight of the trade disputes between China and the UK. -
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German unification
It was a patriotic process that took place in the second half of the nineteenth century, which culminated in the creation of the German Empire on January 18, 1871. -
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Peacetime Navy
It was one of the most notorious causes of the First World War. Continuing tensions between states because of conflicts both nationalists and imperialists led to each state will allocate large amount of state capital investment in the arms industry and the promotion of the army, all this excessive military spending would result eventually in bankruptcy national or not. -
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Italian unification
It was the historical process that throughout the nineteenth century led to the union of some states in which the Italian peninsula was divided, mostly linked to dynasties considered "non-Italian" as the Habsburgs or the Bourbons. -
geographical societies
In Britain, France, USA and Germany were created geographical societies that set out to conduct scientific expeditions around the world. Once explored one territory, the country that had organized the expedition had the right to conquer and exploit it. -
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Colonial expansion
In the last decades of the nineteenth century the great European powers conducted an intense colonization of Africa and Asia. This period ended with the arrival of the First World War. -
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Crisis 1873
It is the name by which a wave of economic panic triggered in the United States for the failure of the bank in Philadelphia, Jay Cooke and Company on September 18, 1873, by the previous fall of the Vienna Stock Exchange is called the May 9, 1873 -
Berlin Conference
Held between 15 November 1884 and 26 February 1885 in the city of Berlin it was called by France and the United Kingdom and organized by the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, in order to solve the problems posed by colonial expansion in Africa and resolve their distribution. -
Fashoda Incident
Episodes that took place in 1898 when France and the United Kingdom decide to build lines of communications to connect their African colonies without interruption. -
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Anglo-Boer War