3. Military defeat
Lagging behind in technology
Breakdown in janissary corp
Territory loss
Economic peril
4. 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
5. Alexander III
◦ Rolled back the reforms of his father
Nicholas II
◦ Autocratic, unyielding tsar
Revolution of 1905
◦ Russo-Japanese War
◦ Bloody Sunday
The Duma
7. The Opium War, 1839-1842
Treaty of Nanjing, 1842
Taiping Rebellion
◦ Led by Hong Xiuguan
8. 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.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
◦
◦ Closed off Japan from the outside world
9. Commodore Matthew Perry
1853 – forced Japan to
reopen
Daimyo
MEIJI RESTORATION
◦ 1867-1868
◦ Meiji Constitution 1889
Formation of the Diet