Monday-
Their located southeast asia
- When it Spanish-American war ended in 1898
- Two days before the treaty was ratified by US senate fighting broke out
- Commercial oppurtunities accesses to national resources
Fear that if we didn't take control another country would
- filipinos can't govern themselves - smaller not as smart
- Didn't care about the reasons just wanted to oppose mckinely
Emilio Aguinaldo- leader of the Filipino Nationalists
- Attempted to fight convential war first few months
- Independence rather that change
- Switched to Guerilla Tatics
- Feburary to November 1899
- November 1899-1902
Aguinaldo captured in 1901
- Filipino's switched to guerrilla warfare- the side could blend in and knew the geogrpahy
Filipino forces entered conflict opposite of US
- didn't get any outside support
- Constant shortages of weapons and ammunation
Filipinos tortured captures US soilders and terrorized civilains
Battle of Manila Bay
- Battle took 5 hours and 40 minutes - no americans died
Latsed 3 years
- Over 4,200 Americans died, Over 20,000 Filipinos died each
- The Boxer Rebellion
-Over the 18,000s various powers forced China to accept foreign control
- The Opium wars and the Sino Japanese war fought to resist foreigners
- The Chinese lost significant port cities- Shanghai and Hong Kong
- Led by the society of righteous and Harminous fists nicknamed Boxers
- The Boxers killed Chinese Christians and deystoyed railroads and churches
-The seige of Bejing
The Boxers laid siege on the foreign district
- Teh seige lasted weeks with hundred of foreigners dead along with thousands of Chinese Christians
- Foreign Rebutal
- A force of around 20,000 troops came from eight nations
- The Rebellion ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol on September 7th 1901
- Chinese could not import arrms for 2 years had to pay 330 millin to foreign nations involved,
-Open Door Policy
- Britoish and Amerian Alfred E Hippisel and William W Rockhill
- Both countries intrested in China
- Intrestests by formal agreement of European Powers
- United States, Britain, France, Germany, and more intrested in China
- Powers maintain free access to treaty ports
- Only chinese collect taxes on trade
- No exemptions from harbor dues and railroad charges
- Open door policy was never an offical policy
- Many countries supported and many wore reluctant
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Tuesday review for test
Wednesday- Test
Thursday-
1914-1918 WW1
Europe in 1815 wasn't as big as now
No italy or germany
Allied Powers Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.
Central Powers- Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the United States.
Then we watched WWI intro videos
Friday-
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