Industrialization
What labor based movement emerged in response to poor working conditions brought by industrialization?
What is the Labor union movement or workers rights movement
What is it when a powerful country takes over or heavily influences weaker regions or countries to expand its wealth, power, or global presence?
What is imperialism
(1884–1885)What was the meeting where European countries got together to divide up Africa for colonization — without asking any Africans.
What was the Berlin Conference
What European empire controlled India during the late 19th century, ruling it as the "jewel in the crown" of its colonial possessions?
Whatt is the British Empire
Why did Japan want to modernize so quickly?
What is being colonized by Western powers
What Japanese government started in 1868 and rapidly industrialized and modernized?
Meiji Restoration
What is the European belief that they had a duty to civilize non-Europeans.
What is the Whiye Man's Burden
What marked Japan emergence as an imeprial power?
what is the term that refers to Japan’s effort to resist Western domination by adopting Western military, political, and industrial practices during the Meiji era?
Whar is modernization or Westernization?
What was the key difference between Japanese and German unification/modernization?
What is Germany unified through warfare and Japan restructured internally?
What was a key industry Japan developed during industrialization that became a major export to Europe?
What is the Silk Industry
what was the policy of non-involvement in foreign economic and political relations, reversed by Japan in the 1850s?
What is isolationism
What war showed that Japan was a modern military power by Japan becoming the first Asian nation to defeat a European empire?
In 1853, WhatAmerican naval officer arrived in Japan, pressuring it to open ports to Western trade with the Treaty of Kanagawa?
Who was Matthew Perry
How did the Meiji oligarchs preserve unity?
What is loyalty to the emperor?
What mission sent Japanese officials abroad in the 1870s to study European systems in order to rapidly industrialize?
What is the Iwakura Mission
What concept justifies European and Japanese expansion based on perceived superiority of culture and race?
What is Social Darwinism
What wars (1853–1856) showed Europe's imperial competition and modern weaponry
What are the Crimean Wars?
What European country controlled the Congo Free State in the late 19th century under the personal rule of King Leopold II?
What is Belgium
What event inspired nationalist across Europe in 1848?
What are the Revolutions of 1848
What Japanese government policy during the Meijji aimed to create state-ru industries, which were later sold to private owners.
What is the policy of "Government- sponsored ndustrialization"
What Japanese term refers to powerful family-controlled industrial and financial conglomerates that shaped the nation's economy.
What is Zaibatsu
With what treaty did the Tokugawa Shogunate's foreign policy came to an end and Japan was opened to Western trade.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
As part of its imperial ambitions, Japan annexed what peninsula in 1910, following decades of increasing control over its government and economy?
What is Korea
While many European countries experienced strong labor movements and growing calls for workers’ rights during industrialization, Japan saw less organized labor resistance during the Meiji period due to this major factor.
What is the strong central government control and lack of political freedoms.