Meiji Reforms
This restoration ended Tokugawa rule and marked the beginning of Japan's modernization program.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This American naval officer's arrival demonstrated the military weakness of Tokugawa Japan and accelerated political change.
Who was Commodore Perry?
Victory in this conflict demonstrated that Japan had become the dominant military power in East Asia.
What is the First Sino-Japanese War?
Japan opened the Russo-Japanese War by attacking this Russian naval base.
What is Port Arthur?
Japan entered World War I by declaring war on this nation in August 1914.
What is Germany?
This policy helped Japan rapidly build a Western-style army and reduce the power of the samurai class.
What is conscription?
This treaty marked the first major breach of Japan's isolation by opening two ports to American ships.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
This treaty recognized Japan's victory over China and awarded Taiwan to Japan.
What is the Treaty of Shimonoseki?
This war shocked many Western observers because it ended in the defeat of a major European power by an Asian nation.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
Japan joined this coalition during World War I.
What are the Allies?
The adoption of this governing document in 1890 was intended to make Japan appear more like the Western Powers.
What is the Constitution?
This agreement expanded American commercial rights and became a model for similar agreements with European powers.
What is the Harris Treaty?
Japan forced this nation to open its ports in 1876, mirroring the coercive tactics once used against Japan itself.
What is Korea?
The outcome of the Russo-Japanese War established Japan as this type of power.
What is a major military/world power?
While European powers were distracted by war, Japan sought to expand its influence in this country.
What is China?
Before educational reforms, schools largely promoted this philosophy, emphasizing hierarchy and duty.
What is Confucianism?
Historians use this term for the agreements that granted foreign nations special privileges while limiting Japanese sovereignty.
What are the Unequal Treaties?
Control of this strategic peninsula became a major source of tension between Japan, China, and Russia.
What is Korea?
This alliance helped legitimize Japan's growing role in international politics before the Russo-Japanese War.
What is the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
This set of demands sought to secure extensive Japanese political and economic privileges in China.
What are the Twenty-One Demands?
Name three specific reforms introduced during the Meiji Restoration and explain how they helped Japan become a modern world power.
What is Conscription, Constitution, Modern education system, Railroads, Telegraphs, Factories/industrialization?
Complete this historical argument:
"Without ___________, Japan would likely not have emerged as a major world power by 1918."
Provide the event and two supporting reasons.
What is Perry's arrival, Treaty of Kanagawa, Harris Treaty, Meiji Restoration
Identify three ways Japan's treatment of Korea mirrored the way Western powers had treated Japan earlier in the nineteenth century.
What is Forced opening of ports, Unequal agreements, Economic influence, Political pressure, Military intimidation?
Under the terms of their alliance, Britain and Japan acknowledged eachothers special interests in these regions
What is Japan acknowledged a British interest in China and Britain acknowledged a Japanese Korea?
The spread of this ideology following this Russian event worried Japanese leaders and influenced their policies toward China.
What is Communism after the Bolshevik Revolution?