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| Economic Change of Meiji Restoration | Western Experts brought in to train and help Japanese to build factories, RRs, modern navy & army. Created zaibatsu families to control the new industries. |
| Political Change of Meiji Restoration | Ended the centralized feudalism of the Shogunate and restored the Emperor to power. Created a legislature, the Diet - though it was with limited suffrage and dominated by the Emperor. |
| Social Change of the Meiji Restoration | Abolished feudalism and rigid social class structure, made everyone equal (but not women). Samurai abolished and all men served in military (can also be political).Scholars from the West brought in to be teachers. |
| Cause of Economic Dependency | Colonial Taxes led to the need for cash... so they had to raise cash crops or sell commodities to pay them. |
| Result of Economic Dependency | Famine, b/c they no longer produce food for their own use. Economic Instability (prices for raw materials and commodities fluctuate too much) |
| Explain one human rights violation that occurred during the Japanese occupation of Korea | Freedom from forced servitude, Korean women taken as spirit girls and comfort women for Japanese soldiers; Freedom from torture and cruel and unusual punishment - people suspected of resistance tortured and killed; right to your own culture - forced to change their language and names to Japanese, forced to practice Shintoism and worship the emperor |
| Impact of Asian and African culture on the West | Foods (ex. Chinese food, sushi, yoga, art, music |
| Why did they US help to create Panama in 1903? | b/c the Colombians wanted too much money and concessions to build the Panama Canal |
| Why did we return the Canal in 1999? | Strategically not as important, as few of our military ships could use it and it was used to accuse us of "Yankee Imperialism" |
| Imperialism | Raw materials and Markets for manufactured goods were motives for Europeans (& Japan) to take colonies |
| Boxers in China & the Sepoys in India | tried to end foreign intervention in their nation |
| Form of colonial rule in China | spheres of influence |
| Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia and France | each took spheres of influence in China. |
| spheres of influcence | a nation claims the exclusive right to investment and trading privileges in a region |
| Result of Opium War | China lost (flame throwers could not beat cannons) and China gave in to Western demands for trading rights |
| Taiping Rebellion | rebellion of peasants against Cixi - due to famine and corrupt government |
| Result of Taiping Rebellion | Q'ing Dynasty won, but empress shared power with regional commanders/ warlords |
| What did the French Revolution, Taiping Rebellion and the Communist Revolutions of both China and Russia have in common? | Peasants want more land and to end their corrupt, abusive gov't and nobles |
| Japan and China limited trade with the Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries | b/c they felt that they would receive no benefits (they didn't want much that Europeans had, ex. cotton when they had silk |
| Japan's feudalism and the Hindu caste system | were rigid social class structures |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | was isolationist for much of the world (killing people who visited foreign nations if they returned to Japan) |
| United States navy & Commodore Matthew Perry | forced Japan to open their ports and end isolationism |
| Japan built an empire in Korea, Manchuria and later French Indochina | to get RAW MATERIALS and compete with the West |
| Meiji Resoration | MODERNIZED their economy and military to compete with the West |
| Japan under the Meiji and Germany under Hitler | Expanded their military and used it to takeover neighboring territories. |
| Who took over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the late 19th century? ______ IndoChina. It was retaliation for killing their missionaries 40 years before? | France |
| Territory in Southeast Asia that we took over after the Spanish American War? | Phillipines |
| Movement associated with Meiji Japan, Menelik II of Ethiopia, Shah of Iran and Peter the Great | modernized and westernized their nations |
| Latin American | region to the south of the United States |
| Contributions of the "global South" to the world economy? | Export primary products/ natural resources |
| The Europeans of the 18th and 19th centuries | exploited the labor and resources of much of the Americas, Asia and Africa |
| US influence on the history of Panama | We helped create the nation by supporting their rebellion from Columbia; we built the canal and controlled it until 1999 |
| Major cause of political instability/revolutions in Latin America | poverty of the majority |
| United States policy to intervene in Latin American nations to ensure that they pay their debts to Europeans | Roosevelt Collary |
| Over reliance on cash crop economies in Latin America and elsewhere causes | Economic instability |
| Benito Juarez | the only Mexican leader who tried to help the lower classes, perhaps b/c he was an Indian |
| Monroe Doctrine | made the US the policemen of the Western Hemisphere - told Europeans to stay out of or Hemisphere |
