After winning the first Opium War, the British gained control of this island.
What is Hong Kong Island?
100
The Sino-Japanese War began in this country.
What is Korea?
100
This was the largest uprising against foreign influence. It was led by a group known in Chinese as the 義和團.
What is the Boxer Uprising?
100
The New Japan started in 1868, when this emperor was still a boy.
Who is Emperor Meiji?
100
This European country controlled the islands of Indonesia.
What is the Netherlands (Holland)?
200
He was the Qing Dynasty official that destroyed the British Opium in Canton, a major event in the lead up to the First Opium War.
Who was Lin Zexu林則徐?
200
The Russians and the Japanese both wanted control of this key port in Northeastern China, whose Chinese name is 旅順口?
What is Port Arthur?
200
There was also a lot of anger at Christian missionaries in rural China. Some local officials created pamphlets warning against the danger of these Christian missionaries. This is one way these pamphlets tried to scare the local people.
What is...?
200
He was the leader of the American expedition to open up Japan.
Who was Commodore Matthew Perry?
200
Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) was made a colony of this European nation.
What is France?
300
This was the name of the Treaty that ended the First Opium War?
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
300
Defeated during the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the Qing Dynasty signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which ceded this island to the Empire of Japan.
What is Formosa?
300
Many Chinese were angry with the unequal treaties that gave the European nations access to these.
What were treaty ports?
300
The United States and other European nations used this strategy to open up trade with Japan, Korea and China.
What is Gunboat Diplomacy?
300
This country controlled many colonies across Africa and dreamed of building a railroad from Cairo to the Capetown.
What is Britain?
400
Opium was produced in British India and put on these fast moving ships and sent to southern China.
What were Opium Clippers?
400
After their defeat at the hands of the Japanese, the Qing Dynasty tried to modernize and reform during a period known as the 100 Days Reform. This was stopped when this powerful leader retook control of the country and threw out Emperor Guangxu光緒.
Whos is Dowager Empress Cixi慈禧太后?
400
In the anti-Christian pamphlets, Jesus is depicted as this.
What is the Celestial Hog?
400
Japan in the late 1800's began rapidly modernizing. To increase industrial production, the government sponsored these.
What is Zaibatsu?
400
The tiny country of Belgium ruled this large colony in the center of Africa, which became a major source of rubber farmed on large plantations.
What is the Congo?
500
Before the Opium Wars, foreign traders were restricted to trading ONLY with these official Chinese government merchants at the city of Canton廣州？
Who were the 公行 gong-hang merchants?
500
During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese had an alliance with this European country (which delayed the Russian Baltic Fleet from joining the war for almost a year).
Who was the British?
500
European nations carved up China's coast, each one maintaining its own this...which also created more anti-imperialist feelings in China.
What is 'Sphere of Influence'?
500
This was Japan's first colony, won from the Qing Dynasty in 1895.
What is Formosa?
500
Gandhi led the independence movement in India, but original he lived and worked in South Africa, where he helped Indians that had originally come to South Africa as this.