HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Theodore Roosevelt, Meiji Restoration
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Matthew perry sailed into tokyo harbour and forced japan to open their borders to. China, thus go to war over korea and win (they also grabbed the island of taiwan: russo-japanese war (1904-1905, russia has it"s own interest in korea, a strategic need. Russia needed a naval base in the pacific. They had one base in siberia but it was too cold half of the year, thus ships couldn"t be moved. Arthur, so they pick a fight with the japanese empire: the japanese navy completely wipes out the russia pacific fleet, and the tsar ends the baltic fleet to go fight the japanese, and promptly lose. Japan needs the resources for survival, thus they need to project power across the ocean.
