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What areas did Japan invade and take control of during the time period from the 1910s to the 1930s?

• Midway and Hawaii

• Korea and Manchuria

• India and Nepal

• Vietnam and Laos

Which groups collided during the Indian Revolt of 1857?

• Indian landowners revolted against British colonialists

• Native Americans fought against United States soldiers

• Native Americans clashed with French Canadian fur traders

• Indian sepoys mutinied against the British East India Company.

What occurred during the Meiji Restoration?

• Japan adopted a democratic government.

• Japan reduced the power of the emperor.

• Japan rapidly industrialized its economy.

• Japan adopted an isolationist foreign policy

Who was responsible for the unification of Germany?

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Frederick the Great

• Emperor Constantine

• Otto von Bismarck

During Japan's Meiji Era, the slogan "oitsuke oikose" (catch-up, overtake) was popular. What goal did this slogan refer to?

• Japan's response to a famine

• . Japan's invasion of Korea

• Japan's move to industrialize

• Japan's overthrow of the emperor

What was a primary cause of the Boxer Rebellion in China?

• anger over excessive taxation

• fear of an invasion from Russia

• demands that China increase trade

• resentment against foreign influences

Which is true of both Japan's and Germany's rise as modern nation-states?

• They reached the power of other industrialized nations in only a few decades.

• Emperors were removed to make way for more democratic governments.

• Colonies in Africa helped put them on the map with other world powers.

• Pressure from foreign powers was a motivation for major change.

Which statement accurately summarizes China's Boxer Rebellion?

• The rebellion challenged China's Qing government, but resulted in more power for Empress Cixi.

• The rebellion tried to expel foreigners from China, but resulted in greater European control of China.

• The rebellion sought to reestablish Confucianism, but resulted in the prohibition of all religion in China.

• The rebellion demanded increased foreign trade, but resulted in most Western traders leaving China.

What British demand led to the Opium Wars in China?

• Britain wanted to stop the trade of opium from China to Europe.

• Britain wanted to tax China's lucrative domestic trade in opium.

• Britain wanted to force China to accept imports of British opium from India

• Britain wanted to force China to replace growing rice with growing opium.

What event most influenced Germany's growth into a major industrial power?

• the unification of the German states

• the wartime economy during World War I

• the creation of a common European market

• the development of electric power plants