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“The Sick Man of Europe”
Military defeat
Lagging behind in technology
Breakdown in janissary corp
Territory loss
Economic peril
Russia Under Pressure The Crimean War, 1853-1855
Russia wanted to gain access to territory in the dying Ottoman Empire
Tsar Alexander II Emancipation Industrialization Zemstvos Assassination
Alexander III◦ Rolled back the reforms of his father
Nicholas II◦ Autocratic, unyielding tsar
Revolution of 1905◦ Russo-Japanese War◦ Bloody Sunday
The Duma
Bloody Sunday
The Opium War, 1839-1842
Treaty of Nanjing, 1842
Taiping Rebellion◦ Led by Hong Xiuguan
Tokugawa Shogunate -1603 – 1867◦Shogun (literally, "a commander of a force") is a
military rank and historical title for (in most cases) hereditary military dictator of Japan.
◦ ◦ Closed off Japan from the outside world
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Commodore Matthew Perry 1853 – forced Japan to
reopenDaimyo
MEIJI RESTORATION ◦1867-1868◦Meiji Constitution 1889 Formation of the Diet
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