The killing of Klemens von Ketteler was a major precipitator of international reaction to this event.
The killing of Klemens von Ketteler was a major precipitator of international reaction to this event. Appropriately it was another German, Alfred von Waldersee, who led the eight nation alliance against the rebels and forced a series of "unequal" treaties upon the perpetrating nation. As a result 10 people were executed and reparations of over 300 million were ordered. Unrest began as Catholic authorities sought the rights to a local temple despite provisions against Christianity. Tensions grew as the Hundred Days reforms were undertaken and then suddenly halted by the Dowager empress. A reaction against international imperialism, --for 10 points-- what was this early twentieth century rebellion perpetrated by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists in China?
The killing of Klemens von Ketteler was a major precipitator of international reaction to this event.
{Boxer} Rebellion