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1. Meiji Restoration: A group of samurai overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate. Then they returned the emperor to power.

Diet: A two-house national assembly created by the constitution.

Sino-Japanese War: War between china and Japan over Korea in 1894, resulting in a japanese victory.

Treaty of Shimonoseki:1895 treaty forcing China to recognize independance of Korea and make cocessions to Japan.

Mongkut: A King who ascended  to power in 1851, was particulary good at such duplomacy.

Liliuokalani: Hawaii’s Queen who did not want foreigners to control Hawaii. She tried to change the treaties that allow them to stay.

Emilio Aguinaldo: Le the Filipinos in a fight for independance

 3. a. The British rule affected India because the Hindus and Muslims hated each other and now they didnt do anything to stop this hatred.

b. Japanese were able to reform and industrialize their nation quiclky because  government bought new factory machinery from Western countries and passed laws to encoured private citizens to start business. Also, the government sent students and leaders to the western countries, there they had to learn about Western ideas

c. The U.S exapsion in Hawaii differs from its exansion in the Philippines because the U.S received firm control of Tutuila and six other small islands after Great Britain, preocupied with the Boer War, withrew its interest and U.S got the islands, after that they took over Guam and the Philippine Islands, they also took control of Wake Island. The Filippinos used guerrilla warfare against the better-equipped U.S Army , the war lasted  3 hard years, they  were defeated in 1902.