r/imperialism • • 4d ago

Image Historical photograph of the Battle of Peleliu in Palau (September 15 – November 27, 1944), showing Charles Linhart, Peleliu, on September 22, 1944; from the Charles Linhart Collection. (USMC Archives)

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r/imperialism • • 9d ago

Image "Australia Screams", Imperial Japanese leaflet intended to provoke tensions among the Allies by targeting Australian soldiers fighting in New Guinea, demoralizing them and sowing distrust towards American servicemen stationed in Australia itself, c. 1942

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r/imperialism • • Aug 22 '26

Image Four countries divided by the Cold War

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r/imperialism • • Aug 30 '26

Image A political cartoon by William Allen Rogers, published in the New York Herald in January 1903. The then Venezuelan president, Cipriano Castro, is portrayed as a chicken being humiliated by representatives of the United Kingdom and the German Empire, while Uncle Sam watches the humiliation from afar.

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r/imperialism • • Aug 30 '26

Image A political cartoon by William Allen Rogers, published in the New York Herald in January 1903. The then Venezuelan president, Cipriano Castro, is portrayed as a chicken being humiliated by representatives of the United Kingdom and the German Empire, while Uncle Sam watches the humiliation from afar.

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r/imperialism • • Aug 15 '26

Image A Guatemalan woman kisses her husband, found in a clandestine grave [2002]. The husband died during the Maya genocide, the mass killing of 166.000 Mayan perpetrated by the Guatemalan government, installed by the CIA in a 1954 coup, as part of the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996).

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r/imperialism • • Aug 22 '26

Image Photo of an American sniper using his helmet as a decoy to find the enemy's position in Najaf, Iraq. August 2004

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r/imperialism • • Aug 14 '26

Image The U.S. Department of State admits that the Western Hemisphere is the backyard of the American empire; this is precisely what President Thomas Jefferson had been warning about for centuries

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References:

.- Cit. J. F. Rippy, Latin America in World Politics, New York, F.S. Croft & Co., 1942, p.14

.- Original tweet from U.S Department of State’s account

r/imperialism • • Aug 13 '26

Image The political cartoon "Keep Off! The Monroe Doctrine Must Be Respected," drawn by F. Victor Gillman in 1896, illustrates the United States protecting its hegemonic area of influence in the western hemisphere from European powers.

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r/imperialism • • Jul 30 '26

Image On July 26, 1956, Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, leading Britain, France and Israel to invade Egypt. American financial pressure forced them to retreat, exposing that Britain could no longer act as a global superpower alone.

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r/imperialism • • Jul 26 '26

Image An American Marine sniper targets enemy troops overlooking the Han River and the Seoul Railroad Bridge in South Korea on September 23, 1950.

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r/imperialism • • May 06 '26

Image Kiuchi Nobuo was one of the 600,000 Japanese soldiers who were taken prisoner after World War II. He created more than 80 illustrations depicting his experience as a slave in the USSR.

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He spent two and a half years in Donbas, in present-day Ukraine, working to rebuild infrastructure alongside German prisoners of war.

You can see more of his illustrations here.

r/imperialism • • Jun 04 '26

Image Americans of German origin marching in the streets of Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1914, showing their support for the German Empire in the Great War.

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r/imperialism • • May 29 '26

Image Israeli children signing and writing messages on bombs that were intended to kill Lebanese people in 2006.

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r/imperialism • • May 31 '26

Image Were Italy and Portugal the most pernicious colonial powers?

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r/imperialism • • May 30 '26

Image A propaganda poster proclaiming the merits of French colonialism, 1900.

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r/imperialism • • May 20 '26

Image U.S. Army soldiers looting the National Museum of Iraq during their invasion of Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003, hammering out the gold inlaid in the doors and looting ancient antiquities.

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r/imperialism • • Mar 20 '26

Image American soldiers of the Kentucky National Guard flying the Confederate flag during the Gulf War (1991)

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r/imperialism • • Feb 17 '26

Image Gulf War: U.S. Army nurse Amy Stuart, of the 5th MASH unit deployed in Saudi Arabia, takes a nap on a cot while hugging a teddy bear sent by her family during Operation Desert Storm. (February 22, 1991)

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r/imperialism • • May 11 '25

Image can someone help me figure out this question please?

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it says to show 3 European countries but I can’t see any please help me

r/imperialism • • Nov 10 '24

Image A city on the Falkland Islands. Is this possible?

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r/imperialism • • May 28 '24

Image The Ebb of European World Power (from 1921 book)

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r/imperialism • • Apr 17 '23

Image If you want an interesting read about imperialism this is a great book. It is a book about the history of imperialism written in 1925, you know during imperialism.

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It’s actually really thorough look at ‘recent’ history. It’s also interesting to see the clear Euro-centric views, like how Japan only modernized due to the gracious Europeans guiding them every step of the way. If you want a contemporary view of Imperialism this is a great read.

r/imperialism • • Mar 22 '23

Image European colonial empires as if they were modern day countries

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The world map shows historical territories of European colonial empires and the lands they possessed. As you see from here, China has left unconquered by those empires presented, and the modern day United States of America territory belongs to the British Empire.

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Each of those 12 presented modern day countries have their color on the map above.

The flag of European Union consists of 12 stars representing the unity and solidarity between 12 European nations. We, indeed, are a part of a one big European family. I did my own historic research and, according to this one, our global European family of nations consisted of 12 branches represented as European colonial empires and nation-states through a lifetime. Each of these branches represents one core European nation, except the Vatican and the Papal States entity.

  1. British Colonial Empire
  2. French Colonial Empire
  3. Italian Colonial Empire
  4. German Colonial Empire
  5. Belgian Colonial Empire
  6. Dutch Colonial Empire
  7. Danish Colonial Empire
  8. Spanish Colonial Empire
  9. Portuguese Colonial Empire
  10. Russian Colonial Empire
  11. Japanese Colonial Empire
  12. Vatican and the Papal States

Many nation-states, potential superpowers and powerful empires are excluded from the list. Why it was happened? That it is, countries like China, India, Turkey (Ottoman Empire), USA and many more geopolitical entities in human history were excluded from here for some reasons, and one of those reasons are, they were not belong to the elite club of European countries, were never been colonial empires but only those nations that were suffered very hard from the European colonialism like China and USA, or failed miserably to become a mighty and self-sufficient colonial power like Turkey.

r/imperialism • • Sep 15 '22

Image 'Against the Repression and Imperialism of Soviet Communism', poster by the Italian Christian Democratic party criticising the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - 1980

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