When the West Came Knocking
This addictive drug sold by Britain to China led to war and economic disruption.
What is opium?
When a country exports more than it imports, it has this type of trade situation.
What is a trade surplus?
Japan limited foreign trade to this one port during isolation.
What is Nagasaki?
Military strongmen who seized power in Latin America.
What are caudillos?
Both China and Japan initially limited contact with foreigners through this shared policy.
What is isolationism?
China controlled foreign trade for centuries to maintain a favorable ______ of trade.
What is balance?
The right of foreigners to live under their own laws while in another country.
What is extraterritoriality?
This U.S. commodore forced Japan to open its ports in the 1850s.
Who is Matthew Perry?
U.S. policy declaring the Americas closed to European colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Unlike China, Japan successfully modernized after restoring power to this emperor.
Who is Emperor Mutsuhito (Meiji)?
This 1842 treaty gave Britain Hong Kong and special legal rights in China.
What is the treaty of Nanjing (Nanking)?
Areas of economic control claimed by Western powers in China.
What are spheres of influence?
The political revolution that restored the emperor and modernized Japan.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This major engineering project boosted U.S. trade but angered Latin Americans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This Chinese reform movement attempted to adopt Western military and industrial technology but had limited success.
What is the self-strengthening movement?
This massive rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan killed about 20 million people.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
A system where a country depends on industrial nations for manufactured goods and investment.
What is economic dependence?
This war made Japan the first Asian nation to defeat a European power.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
U.S. policy claiming the right to act as an “international police power.”
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Japan avoided Western domination partly because it successfully revised these agreements, while China could not.
What are unequal treaties?
This failed uprising tried to expel foreigners and was crushed by a multinational force.
What is the Boxer Uprising (Rebellion)?
A payment for losses in war required by a victorious country.
What is an indemnity?
Powerful business families that led Japan’s industrial growth.
What is the zaibatsu?
This amendment allowed the U.S. to intervene in Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
Japan achieved this outcome that China and most of Latin America did not.
What is become an imperial power?