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Notes on video lecture:
1894-1905: Japan's Imperial Wave in Asia
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on October 11, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
12, antiquated, forced, railroads, tributary, 36, inferior, 1894, Amazon, humiliated, balloons, relative, army, Anglo, Japan, Asia, Kim, dagger, morale, Game, British, Afghanistan, Suez, Africa, dependency, emerging, Siberian, Prussian, Baltic, Yangtze, German, Pacific, nationalism, filmed, naval, grains, free, Persia, Edo, Meiji
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there was expansion not only in Europe and the Americas, but in East          as well
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1868            [MAY-gee] Restoration
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a chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to            in 1868 under Emperor Meiji
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powerful army trained by                  officers
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powerful navy modeled on                expertise
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Port of       
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today the Port of Tokyo
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navy displayed their power with new technology such as a set off hot                 
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acquired      modern war ships
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although not the battleships that would become famous in the 1890s
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like Europe and the United States, Japan was looking beyond its boundaries for new colonies for two reasons
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1. symbolism of power and control
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2. security
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one Prussian military advisor noted to his Japanese colleagues that Korea resembled a              pointed at the heart of Japan
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Korea was a                    state in Beijing's orbit
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Japanese saw Korea as an opportunity to secure territories for primary product production
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imports to Japan
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             in Manchuria
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Japanese drew commodities
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Japan was on a collision course with China
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China had a very large          and navy
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China was different from the Europeans looking at             
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different from how the United States spanked Spain in the Philippines and in Cuba
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Japan had to go up against a traditional and                  powerful neighbor
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China's army and navy were large by                     
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poor             
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could not field the modern weaponry and tactics that Japanese could
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broken chain of command within the Chinese military
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         war finally erupted
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China was quickly trounced
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most of China's fleet was sunk
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so impossible to hang on to the Korean peninsula
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atrocities committed by Japanese troops
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looked upon the Chinese and Koreans as racially                 
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race gets tied into imperial expansion
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November 1894 Port Arthur massacre
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6,000 soldiers killed leaving      behind to bury the cadavers
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a pattern in imperial expansion
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this was humiliating to China
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Korea became a                      of Japan
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later annexed to Japan
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Chinese              to sign agreement
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Japan was allowed to trade all the way up the                River
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China had to make onerous indemnity payments
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one of the first              wars
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struggle was not over in the 1890s
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the arrival of Japan destabilized the balance of forces in East Asia
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compelled the Russians to intensify their race toward the               
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to thwart Japanese advancement
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Russia had designs on the Pacific
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expanding into             
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Persia empire was a hobbled one
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British empire in India bearing down on Persian state as well
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The Great         
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1901 Kipling, "      "
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using                    as a weapon to penetrate into Persia
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the railroad to Baghdad
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access to oil and pipelines
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1907           -Russian Convention
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the partition of Persia into two spheres of influence
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identified respective control in Persia,                       , and Tibet
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neither country would interfere in Tibet’s internal affairs
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recognized Britain's influence over Afghanistan
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settled the scores for a time between Britain and Russia
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both were concerned about              expansion
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a looming tension between Russia and Japan
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two                  empires
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Port Arthur
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gateway for Russians to Pacific
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access from              Sea to Pacific
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not unlike the United States
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Trans-                 Railroad
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1891 Vladivostok
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1904 Russo-Japanese War
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Japanese war ships attacked Russians in Port Arthur
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Japanese knew they had to be swift and decisive
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before Russians that came via the          Canal
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could avoid Africa
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also because of the Trans-Siberian Railroad
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first full-scale            battle in modern
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the Russian Pacific fleet was annihilated in one day, May 1905
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losing 8 battleships in one encounter
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like China, Russia was deeply                     
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sought its revenge in the Second War War
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Japan triumphant in the Pacific
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Russia and China are left defeated with fiscal problems
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both then reformed
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by 1900 the world map had changed
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rising                        did not expel the impulses of empire
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         trade did not put an end to the idea of foreign intervention
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empires increasingly jostled from Java to the             

Spelling Corrections:

Phillipinnes ⇒ Philippines
Yangzee ⇒ Yangtze

Ideas and Concepts:

From the 19th century emotion-swaying political rhetoric department, via this morning's History Since 1300 class: "Japan in the 1870s, acting as a newly risen power, turned its attention toward its neighbor, Korea. Japan wanted to block any other power from annexing or dominating Korea, resolving to end the centuries-old Chinese suzerainty. The Prussian military advisor to the Meiji government at the time, Klemens Wilhelm Jacob Meckel, even noted to his Japanese colleagues that Korea on the map resembled a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan."
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