With a steady relationship, Hawaii and the United States agreed to grant the United States favored-nation status in 1875. In 1887, Hawaii cautiously let the U.S. build a naval base at Pearl Harbor in return for the renewal of their favored-nation status. Ultimately however, this agreement came to an end in 1890 with the introduction of the McKinley Tariff on sugar which was passed by Congress mainly due to pressure from U.S. sugar growers. Having to compete with sugar growers in America and Cuba, Hawaii was confronted with an economic depression. Planters in Hawaii were understandably very displeased with this turn of events, so they plotted to make Hawaii an official territory of the United States.
However, the greatest humiliation came at the battle of Tsushima in May 1905. Russia lost 25-35 warships in this clash. Many mistakes were key to the loss of this war. To begin with the Japanese were far better prepared to tackle disease with medical water testing devices. As well as this the Trans-Siberian railway was still unfinished and this meant that Russia struggled to move its troops and supplies form west to east.
The crushing of Russian’s military added movement to the 1905 Revolution, as it made the people of Russia aware of the weakness of their military, making many people become un-patriotic. They were losing to a nation very few had heard of and it was humiliating. However, many of the defeats to the Russian military occurred after the Revolution had started, not causing its outbreak, but merely adding to the opposition to autocratic rule by the Tsar and prolonging the Revolution. The Russo-Japanese War also brought about economic problems for Russia, and this therefore meant there was a significant lack of money to solve any other problems present Russia, hence partly being responsible for
The factors responsible were both short-term and long-term including, the opposition of the political parties, economic troubles, industrialisation problems and most importantly the Bloody Sunday. The war, itself did not prompt the revolution- it was the fact that Russia lost to a much smaller and almost inferior country. Russia’s huge military defeats were caused by the Russo-Japanese war. An example of such a defeat was in January 1905 when the army had to surrender their Port Arthur naval base in Northern China, which they had possessed before the start of the war. This highlighted the weakness of the military and caused national humiliation, thus contributing to the outbreak of the 1905 Revolution.
Explain why the USA declared war on Spain in 1898? There are many reasons why America declared war on Spain in 1898, the media; the idea of expanding America and Monroe doctrine were all factors that influenced the war to be declared. The origin of war mainly started in Cuba which had good trade links with America as their economy was dependent on America by exporting tobacco and sugar and also Cuba is really closely allocated to America. America had good trade links with Cuba which is why they gained the sympathy of American businessmen and markets. The USA was influenced to war heavily by Cuba, which was still part of Spain’s American empire, In 1895 Cuba wanted to become independent however it was still under the Spanish control which made it hard to become free.
So when these domestic companies are getting a steady flow of customers and income, they no longer have any need or incentive for improving the quality of their products. Even if the companies wanted to improve upon their product, the only way they would be able to do so, is by removing taxes on foreign products. But by not doing so, they are rejecting new ideas into their companies and are basically just promoting isolationism since they are refusing to work with other countries and allow them to ship and sell their products freely in the States. This isolationism will cause things like unemployment because when we are refusing to work with other countries, anything related to foreign business is negatively affected. It is also necessary to allow foreign products to come in so competition will increase.
Most of china’s wealth came from land so people saw no reason to expand its industries. China thought they were the best and did not want to change, they believed that it was unnecessary. The Boxer Rebellion came in. This was a rebellion that China had against the Western Imperialism that was very unsuccessful. Japan had a smarter way of approaching this situation.
Most of us have probably learned about the sinking of USS Maine in Cuba and George Dewey’s destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. But the following gruesome and bloody events that took place from 1899 to 1902, shortly after the Spanish-American war, is almost always left out in most standard U.S. history textbooks. It seems like the war isn’t part of the U.S. curriculum at all and I might have found possible reasons why: the United States doesn’t want to admit that they lied to Filipinos and denied them their long-awaited freedom; they are ashamed to expose how horrible they treated and tortured Filipinos; and they don’t want the public to see how little the United States has changed in more than a century. Upon arrival in the Philippines, Americans were greeted by Filipinos as liberators from the 333-year Spanish rule. But then they were quickly despised as colonizers.
This made countries care about themselves (self- interest). They did not care about what was going on in the world and only cared about themselves. For example, in Manchurian Crisis, Britain and France didn't participate much because to defend their own empires. They became less interested in the assemblies and meetings of the L.O.N (League of Nations). They had to reduce the unemployment of their own empire.
The Manchurian crisis caused an increase in tension because it proved that the league was not as powerful as was previously thought. Some of the other countries may have realised that as long as they were a part of the League, they could vote against any action being taken against them such as economic sanctions like Japan did. The votes all had to be unanimous otherwise nothing would be done. Other countries started to take advantage (this was the main reason that there was an increase in tension) when the other countries realised that the League of Nations didn’t have enough power to successfully intervene and were probably not going to give out sanctions. Mussolini started the Abyssinian crisis and all the League of Nations did was ban weapon sales to Italy.