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Russia by 1914
Monarchy (autocracy) Tsar=ruler
#1 land based empire: expansionist
Orthodox Christians
huge wealth gap, serfdom not abolished until 1861
The lag: russia technologically and ideologically “behind” the west
Crimean War: russia loses to ottoman empire and others, ending holy alliance
Russo-Japanese War: japan defeats russia, shows rise of japan and decline of russia
Ottoman Empire by 1914
Gov: Absolute monarchy (sultan = leader)
Empire: middle east and north africa, the last major muslim empire
Religion: Islam (people of the book)
Tanzimat Reforms: tried to modernize the empire and promote ottomanism
Crimean War: put ottoman empire in huge debt
Young Turk Movement: pro-west and rights, turkish nationalism, against monarchy, took over turkey in 1908, caused Armenian Genocide during WW1
declined because: failed to embrace science and industrialization, antiquated government, too decentralized.
USA by 1914
gov: democratic republic
#1 in world for immigration
slavery abolished after cvil war but segregated
Foreign policy: isolationsts
REligion: Christianity #1
economy: #1 rising
empire: Manifest destiney, won in spanish american war, not indpeendent until 1945
key movements: womens sufferage, prohbition, civil rights
China by 1931
gov: Absolute Monarchy in Qing dynasty, republic in Republic of CHina
Century of Humiliation: lost mnay harmful conflicts
Isolationists but forced to deal with outside countries starting with Opium Wars
Religion: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism
Century of Humiliation major events
Opium wars: Britain sold opium to obtain silver illegally; china declared war, briatain won easily
Taiping rebellion: deadly civil war about religion and civil unrest
First SIno-Japanese war: china lost a limited war with japan, showing the differences
Boxer rebellion: a band of chinese poeple wanted foreigners to leave.
1911 Revolution: china overthrew gov and became republic after 4,000 years of monarchy
WW1: China fought w/ allies hoping foreigners would leave, but didnt
Warlord Era: new gov was weak, anarrchy reigned throughought china
WW2: China eventually won huge war against Japan but suffered huge loses
CHinese civil War: COmmunists won a civil war and made china a ommunist country. This was was temporarilt stopped due to wr with japan in WW2
Japan by 1914
Absolute Monarchy in Edo, rules by shogun, emperor took bakc thrown in Meifi period.
Samurai
isolationilist until Meiji
first non-western country to be industrialized
russo-japanese war: japan won, ontrolled korea as a result
religion: state shinto
