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The Congress of Vienna was an assembly of european powers attempting to reorganize europe after the nepolionic wars and each meeting was shaped by the issue's completxity and difficulty.
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A document that is the cornerstone of the US foreign policies that declared that the east (old world) and west (new world) were different entities with different systems
(1): no interfering with foreign internal affairs
(2): The US recognnizes colonies but will not interfere with the politics of said colonies/ dependencies
(3): The western hemisphere is closed for colonization
(4): any european attempt to control/opress a western country will be considered hostile to the US -
in 1784, the Chinese trade with the americans but the Chinese need for goods outweighed the american need for goods. The british later discovered a good market for smuggled opium in southern china and the americans followed the british, leading to the two to make some money and the chinese to have health problems. As the western powers gave more and more opium to china, the chinese imperted more than they exported, causing financial problems that lead to the start of the first opium war. -
After the british dominated at sea, The british and chinese signed The Treaty of Nanjing that had a large number of demands in favor of the british. Then, the US also signed a treaty with the chinese in extreme favor of the americans. -
After the Nepolionic wars, the peasents of each country heard this and agreed that the monarchy should be overthrown, thus starting the revolutions across europe. -
The civil war started when some southern states were sesseding the union of the U.S. due to the north wanting slaves to be free and these 11 states didn't agree with that, leading to the start of America's bloodiest war. the two sides went back and forth until the north captured the mississippi river and one general (William Sherman) went through Georgia and South Carolina and burned down towns, causing Hurricane damage.
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This was when the three colonies in modern day Canada (Nova scotia, New brunsuick, and Province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) merged into one 'dominion' of canada. -
A political revolution that ended the Tokugawa shogunate (government ran by the military) and thus the Tokugawa period. -
The suez canal's main use was and still is for trade and after the canal was opened, this path was so importent to have that the british and french started to fight over it -
After three different sucessful wars against France, Denmark, and The Hapsburgs, Prussia unified with some other nation-states to form the German confederation (Bevaria, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Württemberg). -
A meeting of all of the european powers to basically imperialize the continent of africa yet not a single african leader was invited to the meeting.
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A meeting of socialists and other trade unions affecting policies and ideas of the labour movement across europe. -
A peasent uprising to keep the immigrants out of the country and the "Boxers" were a secret Chinese society that practiced boxing and calisthetic skills so it could make them "invulnerable".