HIST 2057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Naval Ship, Monroe Doctrine, Kingdom Of Hawaii
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Asia and the pacific: china, 1890-1900s: us became involved in trade w/ china, weak gov. ; japan, us , europe somehow all involved: divided tw. But don"t matter: made sure america got their piece of china and that the ch. Gov. stayed okay: not everyone agreed; letters became known as open. Door notes: appeared that now us was leader in situation; spreading to asia, chinese workers not happy w/ foreign interference, a group decided to revolt: boxers united in. Righteousness (righteous harmonious ???: attacked euorpean missionaries and all foreign: boxer. Rebellion 1900s: put down brutally by international forces (including, us making sure china stayed open to foreign trade. Strong industrially; us could not bully them; japan cut themselves off. Tokyo 1854- us navy: you trade will us or we will destroy your city. Japan had to trade; next 50 yrs: industrializing 1850-1900s. Became stronger; vide w/ us and europe for land in asia.
