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Flashcards by Lauren Le Prevost, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lauren Le Prevost
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| Question | Answer |
| What year did Britain acquire Cyprus? | 1878. |
| What year did Disraeli become Prime Minister? | 1874. |
| How did Britain aim to limit the Russian empire? | By supporting the powers bordering Russia (Eg the Ottoman Empire in the west). |
| In 1876, Disraeli ignored Gladstone's damands to intervene against what? | Against the Ottoman Empire's massacre of Balkan Nationalists and, instead, he sent Salisbury to Constantinople to negotiate support for the Ottomans. |
| In 1877, the Russo-Turkish War broke out, what was the result? | The Russian army defeated the Ottoman army and threatened to take Constantinople, which would give Russia access to the Mediterranean and the ability to close the Black Sea to British shipping. |
| What was British imperial jingoism, and what did it support? | Britain's imperial jingoism, aggressive foreign policy, supported war with Russia. |
| What year did the Ottoman Empire surrender, and what peace was agreed? | 1878, the peace treaty ceded most of the Balkans to Russia. |
| How did Disraeli respond to the peace? | It was unacceptable to Disraeli, who called a congress as Berlin to apply pressure of Russia. Disraeli allied to the German chancellor, Bismarck, to force Russia to abandon some territorial gains or face war. He also secured Cyprus for Britain. |
| Why did the Ottomans face to choice but to accept Disraeli's demand for Cyprus? | Because they relied on British support to reclaim some of their territory from Russia. |
| What was agreed under the Cyprus Convention? | Cyprus was leased to Britain by the Ottoman Empire for £92,799 annually. |
| What happened to the money that was mean tot be paid annually? | It was raised betaking the inhabitants, but the money was never paid to the Ottomans, Disraeli insisted that it was sent to London to pay debts from the Crimean War that the Ottomans had defaulted on. |
| How does the acquisition show the gap between major imperial powers and other countries? | because the Ottoman Empire had been helpless to Disraeli's bloodless acquisition of Cyprus, which was seen as a diplomatic coup. |
| Cyprus was another link in the chain of what? | Of British ports on the route to India. |
| It allowed Britain to do what? | To intervene in Egypt, if necessary, to protect the Suez Canal. |
| What did the acquisition show about Britain's imperial policy? | That it was no longer determined by economics or trade routes. |
| What was the seizure of the territory justified for? | It was justified to protect existing territory rather than seek additional profit. |
| By 1870s what was mainstream in the Conservative Party? | Palmerston's imperialism - to assert British values - was mainstream. Eg Prime Minister Disraeli and Lord Salisbury both thought it terms of geopolitics rather than economics. |
| Why was Cyprus a suitable base in the Mediterranean? | It allowed the Royal Navy to monitor and counter any further Russian expansion. |
| It showed Britain's imperial policy was now determined by what? | Was now determined by he acquisition of port and territory to constrain other powers territorial ambitions. |
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