“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

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MEIJI RESTORATION ◦1867-1868◦Meiji Constitution 1889 Formation of the Diet