[DOC] [TLE] 25.2 East Asia and the West [PAR] How did Western nations gain power and influence in China in the 1800s? ... 
Failure of dynasty led to series of rebellions starting in 1850; Most serious led by 
... power; China went to war with Japan over Korea; was soundly defeated by 
Japan ... Late 1890s, United States got involved; Americans feared European 
nations... [DOC] [TLE] Westward Expansion | HistoryNet [PAR] It also nearly resulted in war with Great Britain over the Oregon Territory. ... Their 
journey helped open the American west to further exploration and ... eager to 
establish their sides' claim, swelling the population there faster than would .... 
which promised its owner a deep-water port for trade with China and Pacific 
Islands. [DOC] [TLE] History Of The United States Of America, Part Five [PAR] After the Civil War, the Native Americans confronted a growing stream of ... As 
farmers settled more western land from 1870 to 1900, the nation's agricultural ... 
By the 1880s, the open-range cattle industry extended from Texas to the Dakotas. 
... Chinese immigrants, over 90 percent men, arrived in California in the 1850s. [DOC] [TLE] China in 1900 - History Learning Site [PAR] In 1900, China was heavily controlled by foreign nations who tended to dominate 
the ... Opium Wars  between China and Britain and France led to defeats for 
China. ... treaty ports which meant that they were open to foreign trade and 
residence. ... The most infamous  the Taiping Rebellion  lasted from 1850 to 
1864. [DOC] [TLE] Japan's Modern History: An Outline of the Period | Asia for Educators ... [PAR] Beside Japan lay China  weak and humiliated, an example of what could befall 
a great Asian nation unable to defend itself against Western imperialism. ... In 
1894, more than forty years after Commodore Perry pried Japan open to the 
outside ... Japan fought a war against China in 1894-95 over the control of Korea 
and... [DOC] [TLE] History of the United States (18651918) - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of the United States from 1865 until 1918 covers the Reconstruction 
Era, the Gilded ... The United States tried and failed to broker a peace settlement 
for World War I, then .... In 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad opened up 
the far west mining and ...... Wilson, in a spirited campaign, defeated both rivals. [DOC] [TLE] International relations of the Great Powers (18141919) - Wikipedia [PAR] This article covers worldwide diplomacy and, more generally, the international 
relations of the ... Having lost the conflict, Germany, Russia and Austria lost their 
great power .... The clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 1843-69 era. .... of 
an invasion of B ritain in 1851, France and Britain cooperated in the 1850s, with 
an... [DOC] [TLE] CHINA'S FUTURE | The Economist [PAR] As China becomes, again, the world's largest economy, it wants the respect it 
enjoyed ... Macartney's request that more ports in China be opened to trade (the 
East ... it is also a 21st-century nation of Norman Foster airports and shining solar 
farms. .... Perhaps most humiliating, in the 1890s enfeebled China was defeated 
in... [DOC] [TLE] Focus on the West - AP U.S. History Topic Outlines - Study Notes [PAR] Prior to the Civil War, most English settlers and their descendents chose to live 
along the ... boom led to California statehood through the Compromise of 1850. ... 
of gold and silver in Colorado happened in the early 1890s at Cripple Creek. ... 
The surge of the mining industry in the western frontier affected the entire nation. [DOC] [TLE] Western Expansion, the New South, and Industrial America, 1870 ... [PAR] The era of Reconstruction was also a time of Western expansion and industrial 
growth. ... As had been the case throughout the nation's past, Native Americans 
lacked ... Before the end of the Civil War, however, some of the original treaties 
with ..... accelerating assimilation and opening more land for American 
settlement. [DOC] [TLE] The Path Traveled by Japan as a Developing Country [PAR] Japan faced great challenges

Question: Opened to the West in the 1850s, this nation learned fast & defeated China in war in the 1890s
Answer: Japan