Monday -
Spanish American War
Causes
- Cubans and Filipinos against spanish Rule
- Cubans Fighting for independence
- fought ten years war
- Many Americans suppored cuban
Jose Marti
- Cubas national hero
- master of societal change
- master of preparations
Tuesday -
Philippine - American War
- after Spanish American War they had taken the Philippines and miss treated them so the Philippinos had rebeled
Boxer Rebelion
- they had rebeled because they thought that people were going to take over china
- Boxers rebelled by killing foreigners and chineses Christians
- Destroyed foreign property
- Boxers began a siege of beijing
- Qing Empress declared war
What happened during it
- thousands of Foreigners and Chinese were killed stopping the Boxers
- at the end the Boxers had lost
- and the government officials involved were to be punished
- Had prohibited them from importing arms for 2 years
Open Door policy
- China was not viewed as a major power and imperial nations wanted to split china
- it was being over ran by other major powers for trade
- America had stayed out of it
The policy
- it gave access to chinese market
- it said that China should not be carved up
- it gave equal trade of all imperial nations
- minimized the power of these nations
- and it had saved china as a country
- gave the a garited independece
What they thought
- Saved the chinese people
- the imperial nations were fine with the policy as long as they had some influence in china
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