How Did Imperialism Cause International Conflict

Over time and throughout history, nationalism has played a significant role that caused international conflicts. Nationalism is a feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their country, often with the belief that their country is better and more important than other countries. The development that caused international conflicts is nationalists ideas because of this belief. Nationalism was evidence through situations in historical events in history such as World War 1, World War 2, and The Berlin Conference. The feeling of being loyal to your own country was evident in World War 1. The reason that led to this war was the fact that strong minded people that refused to let others influence their way of living and their structure of their country. Desperation to show their ideas to the world led to the World War 2, when Germany invades Poland in September …show more content…
Others may also believe that there were a variety of key cause for international conflicts such as imperialism. According to Kasi Economics, “ Bismark appreciated the opportunity to expand Germany’s sphere of influence over Africa and desired to force Germany’s rivals to struggle with one another for territory.” Imperialism was evidence and the principal reason for the Berlin Conference. The colonial powers entered the conference with one thing in mind; to gain control over the Interior of the Continent. The initial task of the conference was to agree that the Congo River and Niger River mouths and basins would be considered neutral and open to trade. But the strong minded leaders of these nations entered wanting to expand their land and their way of living in Africa. The European powers justified dividing a continent among themselves without considering the desires of the indigenous peoples. While this appears extremely arrogant to us now, it seemed to them to be the obvious extension of their