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  • opium war

    opium war

    conflict between china and britain over the importation of drugs into china. This was important because at the end of the war britian got hong kong.
  • taiping rebellion

    taiping rebellion

    14 year long peasant revolt against the weakening Qing Dynasty. This is important because it led to the great leap foward and the cultural revalution
  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion

    A rebellion during Qing dynasty aimed at kicking foreigners out of China. This is important because it stressed how much the people wanted the gonvernment to change.
  • Hong Kong

    Hong Kong

    island given to Britain following the Opium War. It was returned to China in 1997
  • Tiananmen Square

    Tiananmen Square

    site of 1989 student protests which were violently put down by the gonvernment

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