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Britain started importing opium to China and to show their discontent the Chinese threw cartons of opium into the water. The Europeans demaded compensation and China fought back.
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It was signed at the end of the First Opium War and it granted Britain many ports and money in compensation for the opium.
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France and Russia disputed over control over a religious site near Jerusalem.
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The Chinese were discontent with the treaty conditions and they failed to satisfy British goals of improved trade led to this war.
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The Sepoys found out cartridegs in India were sealed with beef and pork and rebelled. It took a year for the British East India Trading Company to defeat them, but it led to a rise in India nationalism.
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Matthew Perry forced trade Japan which leads to internal fighting. The Shogunate is overthrown and the Meiji Emperor is restored.
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The European leaders gathered together in Berlin and decided how to carve up Africa. Leopold II who was in the conference was after the Congo Free State
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A small group of Chinese that believed they were invincible rebelled agains the Europeans in China.
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The States esltablished this policy proposed to keep trade with China open to all countries on an equal basis to keep one country from dominating the country.
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Rights to the canal were held by the British and French, but the Egyptian President Gamal Nasser nationalized the canal and it was closed for 8 years leaving 14 ships trapped and it didn't reopen until 1975
