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Convention of Kanagawa - End of Japan's Isolation
- Arrival of Matthew Perry's fleet from the US
- Forced signing of the unequal treaty
- The end of Japan's 220-year-old policy of national seclusion
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Meiji Restoration
- Previously the shogun has absolute control
- The Meiji Restoration restores power back to the emperor
- Carried out under foreign influence (opening of Japan) and focused on military development
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First Sino-Japanese War (甲午战争)
- Primary sparked by competing influence over Korea
- During the Qing Dynasty in China
- Japan destroys China both on land and at sea
- China cedes Taiwan to Japan
- This major defeat of the Chinese military catalyzed domestic revolution.
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Boxer Rebellion (义和团运动)
- peasant uprising that attempted to drive foreigners out of China
- anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, anti-Christian
- mainly caused by drought + foreign spheres of influence after the first Sino-Japanese War
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Russo-Japanese War
- fought over Imperial ambitions over Korea and Manchuria
- Japan completely triumphs and gains control of Korea and part of Manchuria
- Russia's defeat catalyzed the 1905 Russian revolution
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Russian Revolution
- The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power and ended csarist rule
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Nanjing Massacre
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Muken Incident & Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
- Manchuria = 东北三省
- Muken Incident (九一八事变): Japan staged a small detonation in its South Manchuria Railway and blamed China; near modern-day 沈阳
- The Muken Incidence became a pretext for the invasion
- Resulted in the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and the establishment of the puppet state Manchukuo
- These events were later revealed in the Lytton Report, which led the League of Nations to condemn Japan
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Battle of Shanghai
- the first battle in the Second Sino Japanese War
- bloody battle described as Stalingrad on the Yangtze
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Second Sino Japanese War
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WW2
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Pearl Harbor Attack