(1) What was the “Concert of Europe” and why did it yield relative peace? Why did the Concert break down?

(2) What caused colonialism and imperialism?

(3) The “Fourteen Points Speech,” by President Woodrow Wilson is often identified as a classic statement of liberalism in international relations. Why?

question 1 should be a page and a half
question 2 should be 1 page
question 3 should be 2 pages

Read Dennis Showalter, Concert of Europe, Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter, vol. 2, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006, pp. 524-527,

Read the excerpt of John A. Hobson, Imperialism (London: Allen and Unwin, 1948)  available at:  https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1902hobson.asp.

Read the poem, The White Mans Burden, by Rudyard Kipling (1899) available at:  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/.

Review the animated map embedded in the article: Zack Beauchamp, 500 years of European colonialism, in one animated map, Vox.com (16 January 2015) available at: https://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5691954/colonialism-collapse-gif-imperialism.

Read President Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Speech, January 8, 1918, available at:  https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/President_Wilson’s_Fourteen_Points.

Listen to the HistoryExtra podcast, Appeasement and the road to World War Two (24 June 2019) available at:  https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/appeasement-and-the-road-to-world-war-two/.

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