A World History of Our Own Times: From the turn of the century to the 1918 armisticeSimon and Schuster, 1949 |
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... China . The European powers had just experienced the greatest difficulty , in 1895 , preventing the Japanese from establishing themselves on the Asiatic mainland . Japan had overwhelmed China in a short , sharp war and had forced the ...
... China . The European powers had just experienced the greatest difficulty , in 1895 , preventing the Japanese from establishing themselves on the Asiatic mainland . Japan had overwhelmed China in a short , sharp war and had forced the ...
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... China's eighteen provinces , but the men who actually ruled China were the chief magistrates of the local hsiens , or districts , corresponding roughly to American counties , and the magistrate worked so near to the people that he had ...
... China's eighteen provinces , but the men who actually ruled China were the chief magistrates of the local hsiens , or districts , corresponding roughly to American counties , and the magistrate worked so near to the people that he had ...
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... China stunned the Chinese and staggered the rest of the world . The Japanese , however , suffered an even sharper ... China's expense . The Russians benefited the most . They lent the Chinese the money needed to indemnify Japan and ...
... China stunned the Chinese and staggered the rest of the world . The Japanese , however , suffered an even sharper ... China's expense . The Russians benefited the most . They lent the Chinese the money needed to indemnify Japan and ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF 1900 | 7 |
CHAPTER PAGE 1 EUROPE AND GERMANY 3 | 7 |
THE LESSER TWOTHIRDS OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE | 23 |
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Allied American Army Asia attack Austria-Hungary Austrian Balfour Balkans became BETTMANN ARCHIVE Bismarck Boer Bolsheviks Britain British BROWN BROTHERS Bryan Bülow Cabinet called Catholic China Chinese civilization command Conservative Dardanelles declared defeat Duma East Eastern Emperor Empire England Europe European favored feared fighting force foreign France Francis Joseph French front gave German German Empire Germany's Government hand Hindenburg hoped House hundred imperial India industry Italian Japan Japanese Kaiser land later leaders Lenin Liberals lived Ludendorff major Manchuria mass McKinley military million naval Navy nineteenth century offensive Office Pan-Germans Pan-Slav Party peace political Port Arthur President railway reform religion Republic Republican revolution revolutionary Roosevelt Russian Russo-Japanese War Senate Serbia Socialist soldiers Taft Theodore Roosevelt thousand tion took treaty Triple Alliance troops Tsar turned twentieth United victory wanted Western Western front Wilson workers wrote York Yuan Shih-kai