1. Land of the Rising
Sun
Ch. 12 Sec. 2 pp.376-379
Ch. 15 Sec. 4 pp. 481-482
2. Years of Isolation
Isolated and unchanged for 200 yrs
Homogenous society
Tightly controlled by Shoguns
Admiral Perry (1853)
Treaty of Knagawa (1854)
PUCCINI-1904
3. Meiji Restoration
Mutsuhito forces modernization
Western Influence
Germany-Gov’t and Army
British-Navy
U.S.A.-Education
Infrastructure and Trade
4. Imperial Japan
Strong Military
Sino-Japanese War (1894)
Russo-Japanese War (1904)
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
Annexation of Korea (1910)
1920’s see a more democratic Japan
1922-Treaty to respect China borders
Kellogg-Briand Pact renounces war (1928)
5. Japanese Militarism
Depression of 1929
Gov’t blamed, Military seizes
control
Emperor Hirohito glorified
through extreme nationalism
Planned to fix economy through
foreign expansion
Seized Manchuria in 1931
Left League of Nations
(1933)
Rape of Nanjing (1937)
7. Russia In Turmoil 1850-1900
Crimean War (1854)
Alexander III
Russification
Pogroms
NihlismPopulismMarxism
8. Social Unrest
Embarrassment of Russo-Japanese War
1905 Riots
“Bloody Sunday” Jan. 22, 1905
Gov’t unable to help Slavs
Centuries of serfdom and industrialization
had severed society
9. Russia in WWI
25% of army did not have guns
All food and resources went to the military
Czar Nicholas II lost support of people
Riots forced Czar abdication
March Revolutions (1917)
Unsuccessful provisional gov’t put in place
P. 437
Rasputin
10. “Peace, Land, and Bread”
Germany sends Lenin to Russia
Bolsheviks overthrow gov’t and
declare a communist state
Brest-Livotsk Treaty 1918
Civil war (1918-1920)
Red-Bolsheviks
Whites-Conservatives
Created Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics in 1922
Dictatorship of Communism-1924
11. Joseph Stalin
Rose through party
Gained power in 1928
Exiled Leon Trotsky
Implemented Totalitarianism (p.441)
Police Terror
Indoctrination
Propaganda and Censorship
Religious/Ethnic Persecution
Economic Reforms
13. Great Britain
Great Britain lost its economic
position after the war
Britain had civil unrest among the
workers due to high
unemployment (India)
Ireland gains independence in
1921
14. France
WWI destroyed much of
France
Economic troubles
prevented France from
rebuilding quickly
Political struggles
erupted between
Fascists and Socialists
Built the Maginot Line
15. United States
U.S. replaced G.B. as
new great power
Loaned money to
European countries to
rebuild
(Dawes Plan)
Overproduction and low
demand lead to stock
market crash-1929
18. Weimar Republic
Treaty of Versailles embarrassed Germany and
created civil unrest
Dolchtoss Theory
Political instability
Article 48-gave president rule for 4 months
Reichstag-480 members voted for a party
15 national elections between 1921-1926
7 major political parties
SPD (Socialists) had control and voted on Treaty
Reichstag
19. Economic Unrest
Reparations prevent growth
High Unemployment
France occupation of Ruhr
region
German Inflation
1914- 4.2 Reichmarks (R.M)=$1
1919- 8.9 R.M. = $1
1923-130 Billion R.M. = $1
1924- 4.2 Trillion R.M. = $1
20. Dawes Plan
U.S. fears other countries won’t pay
loans and rise of socialism
Restructured reparations and gave
Germany loans to rebuild
1925-1929 saw golden years of
Weimar under Hindenburg
Stability weakens influence of
extremist political parties