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GCSE History · key term
Aggressive patriotism that supports asserting national power through threats, military action or conquest.
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Revise: Expansion in AfricaJingoism was an especially aggressive expression of this outlook: patriotic enthusiasm became support for military action and conquest. It could strengthen public backing for expansion, but it did not represent everyone’s views. Critics challenged imperial violence, expense and hypocrisy, including during the Boer War.
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Aggressive patriotism that supports forceful foreign policies and war.
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The relief of Mafeking in May 1900 produced enthusiastic street celebrations in Britain. Such responses could become jingoism, an aggressive patriotism that supported war and imperial expansion.
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Aggressive patriotism which celebrates national power and supports its use against other countries or peoples.
Revise: Differing attitudesPaul Kruger, president of the Transvaal, could be presented as a villain rather than as someone whose position needed explaining. Such entertainment helped normalise jingoism: aggressive patriotism which celebrated British power and hostility towards its opponents.