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cause of impersialism |
economic nationalism some for religious reasons |
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spheres of infulence |
area in which a foreign nation has special economic privileges |
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what country had a sphere of influence in China
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European countries especially the British
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how did China try to stop the sphere of influence the British had on them |
-opium war -boxer rebellion China uses the idea of force |
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why was the opium war started
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isolation from British trade (failed attempts to end the influence)
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how was the opium war started |
1839 china destroys a shipment of opium
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who wins opium war |
british |
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what is created b/c of China losing opium war |
treaty of Nahjing
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What is the treaty of Nahjing |
-china has to pay for the opium destroyed -give the British the island of Hong Kong -open ports to British trade (ends isolation) |
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what is the boxer rebellion |
formed to expel foreigners from china -1900 boxers killed many Chinese Christians and foreigners defeated by western powers (boxer= group of people to rid china of foreigners)
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what was china forced to do because of the boxer rebellion |
allow foreign troops on Chinese soil and foreign warships in Chinese waters |
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what is the revolution of 1911 |
people rebelled against government, ending the ancient system of imperial rule |
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what happened during the revolution of 1911 |
the nationalists seized power & declared china a republic. they wanted china to have a government based on democracy.
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who was china's first president and what happened to him |
Sun Yat-Sen; fighting broke out, eh was forced out of power in 1912 |
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how did the Japanese feel about Europe countries trading with them (Japan) |
Japan first welcomed them, but began to worry that they might try to conquer them (China felt the same as Japan)
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how did the government deal with the European countries |
Isolation in 1639, lasted more than 200 years |
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what did the United States do about Japanese isolation |
U.S. sent commodore Matthew Perry to negotiate a trade agreement. Perry came w/ fleet of steam-powered war ships. Japan agreed to Perry's terms
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what happened to japan after they stopped isolation |
forced to sign unequal treaties with other western nations for the next 15 years (Japanese idea is you can't beat em', join em') |
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What is the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912) |
new government- modernize and industrialize the country -went around countries and formed a new society with multiply country's ideas put together |
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how does the Meiji reform Japan |
-abolition of feudal system -westernize the school system -modernized the army - more jobs -more educated -very successful
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why does japan feel they need to go into other parts of Asia |
-Lack of fertile land for agriculture -lack of natural resources -population growth -need for the raw materials of industry -rise of nationalism
japan began efforts tp0 control weaker countries that are rich in natural resources |
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list the Japanese wars |
-Sino-Japanese war (1844-1895) gained Taiwan and sphere of influence in Korea (japan then took control of Korea and acted like is was their own county; annexed in 1910) - Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905) destroy Russian fleet and finally is respected as a world power lager sphere of influence in Manchuria |
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what did the Japanese to Korea |
-forced slave labor -forced Koreans to join japes army -forbid Korean language -make Koreans practice japes religion -forced them to have Japanese names -tortured/killed those who went against japes -human experiments -educated in Japanese (Koreans can't learn) korea doesn't like japes, some even today 35 years long . Koreans weren't treated has japes but forced to act like them
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what was positive for Korea
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industrial development
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who was the emperor of japan in 1926-1989 |
Hitohito - responsible for starting and ending wars with china, U.S. , Britain, ect
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What happened when Japanese industry had and economic depressio0n in 1929 |
-businesses ruined -unemployment =domestic troubles -As condtions grew worse, militarists were able to gain control of the government -1930 japan become a military dictatorship |
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what happened in the Russo-Japanese war |
-Japes invaded Manchuria china ask league of nations for help b/c japes were cruel to Manchuria -league of nations withdrew japan frown Manchuria -japan then withdrew form the league of nations
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Who was Manchuria's new emperor and why was he chosen for that position by japan |
Puyi is the emperor. he is chosen because -he's not Japanese (they followed b/c of that) -puyi was a puppet emperor for japan -Puyi was used to living high life and would do anything to get that life back |
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who took over when Sun Yat-Sen died and what did the new leader do (China) |
Chiangkai-shek (new president) -defeated warlords &unified china
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what was the nationalist party |
-influenced by western ideas -wanted to modernize china -improved lives for the rich but not for the poor (led by president) |
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who led the communist party and what did they want |
Mao Zedong -wanted to give more power to the workers and give land to the peasants -equal society -chianf kai-shek ordered those how favored communist ideas to be killed. -start of the civil war |
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what was the long march |
the communists started year-long journey -6,000 miles -18 mountains -more then 20 rivers -100,000 communists left for the journey and only 8,000 reached safely -start of march Otter Braua was leader but the end the leader was Mao Zedong |
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what happened when Japanese launched all out war against china (WWII) |
communists and the nationalists put asides deferens to fight japan war ended in 1945 but not civil war |
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What happened when Japanese occupy china |
1937 rape of Nanking-lasted 6 weeks -2 million Japanese troops where in china -adopted the 'three all campaign'- kill all, burn all, destroy all) -by 1945 4 million chinese people had died and 60 million had been displaced |
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What was the "Asia for Asians" and what went wrong |
is was "liberating" Asia from western imperialism but really replaced western imperialism with Japanese imperialism (Japanese imperialism will end after WWII) |
