1. How did industrialization change European's relations with China, India, and Japan?
2. Why did imperialism grow after 1880? What rationalizations for European expansion were offered at the end of the nineteenth century?
3. What examples are there of successful resistance to Western imperialism?
4. How did imperialism fit with the European alliance system? How did it cause it? How did imperialism undermine European stability under the alliance system?
5. What were the obstacles preventing Indian independence?
6. Why were Japan and China able to withstand imperialist expansion?
7. Why was Africa divided up in such a brief time?
8. How did imperialism threaten world peace in the early twentieth century?
9. How did competition for empire between England, France, and Russia make their friendship on the eve of World War I seem unlikely?
10. How was Turkey able to maintain itself in the nineteenth century against the encroachments of the Europeans? How did Turkey respond to European threats in the twentieth century?
11. What problems in the Middle East and central Asia appear to have been resolved because Russia was defeated in World War I?