HISTORY 126B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Unequal Treaty, Tripartite Pact, Jim Crow Laws
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6:58 pm: one of connections: both wars in east + west caused because of search for empire. Japanese wanted to look for empire in southeast asia. Response to european imperialism + american penetration asia during 19th century. Western powers trying to open eastern markets w/o having to establish formal imperial control. Commodore matthew perry: 1853: arrived w/ fleet of coast of tokyo + forced them to trade w/ us + forced to sign a bunch of unequal treaties (then other countries followed) Treaties set tariff levels that japanese had no control of it + intro of foreign currency disrupted entire economic system: fall of military gov. Meji restoration est. (1868) beginning of projects to modernize japan. Japanese nationalism born as reaction against foreign aggression. Japan as imperial power: creeping power: sino-japanese war (1894-95): gained dominance in korea annexed in 1910, russo-japanese war (1904-1905): foothold in manchuria.
