COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM 1870 1914
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establish rules for dividing up Africa among the European countries.
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limit Russian expansion on the continent
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work with the Africans to seek trade agreements.
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prevent Belgium from taking over the Congo
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stop the spread of United States influence in Africa.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, saw these potential conflicts as threating his plans for Europe. It was for this reason that he invited European leaders to come to Berlin in 1884 to work out a policy for their expansion on the African continent.
Detailed explanation-2: -Known as The Berlin Conference, they sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people.
Detailed explanation-3: -The conference was organized by Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of Germany.
Detailed explanation-4: -Berlin West Africa Conference, a series of negotiations (Nov. 15, 1884–Feb. 26, 1885) at Berlin, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin in Central Africa.
Detailed explanation-5: -Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa; also called the Berlin West Africa Conference.