Industrialization contributed to the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate by encouraging foreign nations to force Japan to open its markets to their industrial products, thus forcing the process known as Meiji Restoration.
Explanation:
The Tokugawa Shogunate was the feudal regime that ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867. During this period, Japan closed almost completely, without any special contact with the outside world. Only Chinese and Dutch could enter Japan and only for strictly commercial purposes. Other Europeans who reached Japan's coasts were executed. In particular, the reason for the Japanese isolation was that the ruling shoguns considered Christian missionaries a destabilizing factor. Only when US Navy Captain Matthew C. Perry appeared in July 1853 with four ships in the port of Edo and demanded that Japan be opened for trade, this situation stopped. In the 200 years that have passed since the isolation, the Western world had, among other things, started an industrialization, and the Japanese could not do much against modern weapons. Japan was therefore opened without a fight. The opening was a blow to the Tokugawa regime, which was facing its downfall. In 1866, the revolution called the Meiji Restoration began, which brought the shogunate to its end.
The following reason explains why the U.S. army gunned down unarmed Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota in 1890:
American soldiers feared an uprising provoked by a militant interpretation of the Ghost Dance religion.
Explanation:
Ghost Dance is such a religion which is lying on the basis of Wovoka's prophecy. That states the end of white expansion by Indians and also preaching the lessons of clean living, honest life and cooperation between different cultures.
This religious movement wanted to restore the cultural traditions of Indians who were living in the western parts of the United States of America.
In 1890, the U.S. army gunned down unarmed Sioux because soldiers feared that uprising has been provoked by the militant interpretation of the ghost dance religion.
In early 1990 Iraq was accusing Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through slant drilling, although some Iraqi sources indicated Saddam Hussein's decision to attack Kuwait was made a few months before the actual invasion.
