... identity) through isolation rather than self preservation through adaptation would leave China a victim, such as the many others before for them. On the other side of the spectrum, Japan was much more accepting of western influence, and as history would show, their outcome to imperialism and colonialism was more successful than their counterparts. During the seventeenth and eighteenth ... powers. The Meiji sent out officials to Europe and the United States to learn technologies, politics, economics, agriculture and military all of which was turned over quickly to modernized Japan. The g...

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... this determination that was the cause of drastic reforms and lead the country to become an imperialistic nation while the whole time fighting off the imperialistic nations. The new government aimed to make Japan a state focused on equality among its people. The social classes of the previous Tokugawa era were broken down over time as well as the samurai loosing most of ... divide it into prefectures. After the intense westernization took place the country had to catch up militaristically. This, being a high priority for Japan, the government introduced a universal conscription of a new ...

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... descendent of the British Empire, Canada felt the need to join and support Britain in the battle. Therefore alongside the British Empire, Canada declared war on Japan. The Battle of Hong Kong went extremely wrong and the Japanese gained control of Hong Kong in less than a month. The battle lasted from December seventh ... their attack on the British colony of Hong Kong. The preparation done by the Japanese Empire began to portray the Japanese government as a threat. As Japan began to study and consider their attack months before it started, the allied forces had been caught off guard. T...

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... and colonies with non-white populations. Although the empire was characterized by imperial power - enlightened despotism - military imperialism, ultimately became a supporter of free thinking and developing self-government in white colonies. The government of Benjamin Disraeli (1874-1880), was a more active British colonial policy. It was called "New Imperialism" which was characterized by an aggressive expansion designed to protect ... of the Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919, the empire reached its greatest extension by adding 1.8 million square miles and 13 million new residents. Aft...

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... military training in Moscow and the Communists were initially his allies, but he later decided to purge them from his government. In 1934-1935 the Communists undertook the Long March to Shaanxi Province, where they established a base. Two years later, Japan invaded China forcing the Kuomintang and the Communists into an uneasy alliance. At the end of the war against ... demonstration in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, killing several hundred people. Students and workers demonstrating against Communist rule in China had occupied Tiananmen Square and other locations. When the demonstrations con...

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... closed in on Paris in 1940, Hitler believed he could go after the rest of the continent after signing the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan. "His instrument was the Tripartite Pact, signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27, 1940, binding any two to come to the aid of a third if it was attacked." (Robert Cowley, What If, page 298 ... defeating the little Ottoman states, he would have eventually reached bigger oil wells like those in modern day Kuwait and Iraq. "On April 3, Rasid Ali had overthrown the pro-British Government in Iraq and asked for German help." (Cowley, ...

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... had memories of the death and destruction that it had caused. This meant everyone was reluctant to get involved in another conflict. The British government also thought that the public was sympathetic to Germany's claims to The Treaty of Versailles as they thought they had been treated too harshly. ... As Britain was already in conflict with Japan in the Far East and Italy in the Mediterranean, they couldn't fight a war on another front, as their army wasn't strong enough and it ... would result in a greater loss of life. The British government also thought that Britain wasn't out of r...

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... " was impossible to achieve or meant they would loss their cultural traditions. But World War II (1931-1945) sped up the de-colonization process by weakening many European powers and Japan. The Cold War and the Suez Crisis (1956) seemed to mark the end of (imperial) colonialism. Post-colonialism brought about cultural hybridity. This is a key factor in globalization. In 1870 ... ruled, English became the common language used by India's hundreds of ethnic and linguistic groups. The British influences are still evident today in the form of India's infrastructure, rail system, government, a...

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... through its imperialistic growth, exciting events had been taking place in China. After its defeat by Japan in 1894-1895, the imperialistic European powers of Russia and Germany moved in. They began to tear away valuable leaseholds and economic spheres of influence from the Manchu government. A growing number of Americans viewed the dissection of China with alarm. Churches were worried about their ... ...

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