Chapter 12 Flashcards
What did the Qing dynasty NOT want?
Goods
What is the Opium war?
It was fought between the Chinese and the British, started with British sneaking in Opium and got Chinese addicted, China wrote the British a letter, fought on water (British were best on water) British won the war
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
Ended the opium war, British got Hong Kong
What were some internal problems in China?
Population was doubling and famine was occuring
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
Hong started the rebellion, lasted for 15-20 years
Who is Hong?
A peasant who built an army up from nothing to lead the Taiping Rebellion
Who was right about saying that the world needed rebellions and wars to kill off people?
Thomas Matheus
What is the Open Door Policy?
It was suggested by America, made everyone able to trade with China and not allowing it to colonize
What were extraterritorial rights?
Chinese law doesn’t apply to foreigners
Who are the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists?
Later known as the Boxers, who were mad about extra rights
What is the Boxer rebellion?
Boxers surrounded the Europeans and forced them to leave
Who ended the boxer rebellion?
Multinational European forces
What is the World Tour?
Chinese went around the world observing different countries
How were the Chinese effected by the World Tour?
Went from monarchy to constitutional monarchy after the Japanese
Modeled their new navy after the British
Modeled their new army after the Germans
Who is Perry?
The American who sailed into what is now the Tokyo harbor with big ships and a letter from president Fillmore politely asking to allow free trade between Japan and the U.S., along with delivering the letter Perry threatened the Japanese saying that if they didn’t accept he would come back and beat them up
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
It opened two ports
What happend after the Treaty of Kanagawa?
The shogun stepped down
Who is Mutsuhito?
The young Japanese emperor who reformed Japan
What is the Meiji Era? What does it mean?
The reign of Mutshutio, meaning Enlightened
What did the Japanese begin to do after building up their military?
Attacking the Chinese
What happened between the Japanese and the Koreans?
They began trading
What was the result of the Chinese about the Japanese and the Koreans?
They became angry
What is the Hands-Off agreement?
China and Japan agreeing not to send in any type of military into korea
What caused the Sino-Japanese War?
China broke the Hands-Off agreement because the Korean king needed help with the rebellion inside of Korea and the Japanese got mad
What did the peace treaty give Japan after the Sino-Japanese War?
Taiwan and Pescadores Islands
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
Russians and Japanese were at war over Manchuria, Japan offered to let Russians have Manchuria if Russians would stay out of Korea, Russians refused, Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Russians, the Japanese drove Russians out of Korea and captured most of their fleet