 “foreigners” and “being ruled”
 Japanese (mid 16th century)
 Chinese (15th-18th century)
 Indian (14th-18th century)
 PORTUGUESE
 Vasco de Gama 1498
 Albuquerque 1501
 Malacca 1515 and “secrecy” of the East
 “AGE OF DISCOVERY”
 “trinity spices” (cloves, cinnamon, mace)
 SPANISH
 MAGELLAN and Philippines 1521
 DUTCH
 Dutch East Indian Company 1602
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 King AGUNG 1625-1630
 SPICE ISLANDS and SPICE WARS
 Transplanting
 Indian colonies
 BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY 1600, 1707
 INDIA ACT 1784
 Tea
 MUGHAL
 STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 1826 (Penang, Malacca, Singapore)
 Chinese colonies
 Opium
 OPIUM WARS 1839-42 and 1856-60
 Hong Kong
 BURMESE KINGDOMS 1820s-1880s
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 King THEBAW
 1878-1885 Burmese Wars
 FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY 1664
 Mekong River
 INDOCHINA 1880s
 Tai Kingdoms
 SIAM 1767 (CHAKRI)
 European conflicts/rivalries
 Mongkut (Rama IV) 1851-1868
 Chulalongkorn (Rama V) 1868-1910
 JAPAN 1868-1914
 1868 MEIJI restoration
 Samurai
 Shogun
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 Social Darwinism
 “white man’s burden”
 US War with Spain 1898-1900
 Manchu / Qing
 “Open Door” in China
 1900 Boxer rebellion
 Huks
 Direct vs. Indirect rule
 “globalism”
 Economic development
 “rebel groups”
 CAO DAI (1890s)
 BAHASA INDONESIA (1900s)
 MUHAMMADIYAH (1910)
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 PKI (1920)
 VNQDD – Viet Minh
 Nguyen Sinh Cunh, Nguyen Ai Quoc, HO CHI MINH
 Aung San
 Saloth Sar (POL POT)
 Phibun Songkrasam
 Imperial expansion
 Rise of Japan
 Anti-colonialism
 Sino-Japanese war 1894-95
 Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905
 Decline of Chinese Empire
 Anti-Western and nationalist sentiment in China
 1850 TAIPING REBELLION
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 HONG XIUQUAN
 TIENTSIN (TIANJIN) REVOLT 1858-1860
 TIENTSIN MASSACRE 1870
 Wars with Britain 1839-42 and 1856-60
 War with France 1883
 Manchu (Qing) Dowager
 BOXER REBELLION 1900
 Dr. SUN YAT SEN
 Kuomintang (Guomindong)
 Chinese Nationalist Revolution 1911
 World War One 1914-1918
 Rise of Japan 1914-1941
 21 Demands 1915
 Manchuria
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 Russian Revolution 1917 and communism
 Paris Peace Conference 1918-1919
 Woodrow Wilson and 14 Points
 League of Nations
 Sovereignty
 Self-determination
 Mandates
 Chinese civil war 1921-1949
 MAO ZEDONG (Tse-Tung)
 Great Depression 1929-1939
 Fascism/extreme nationalism (especially in Japan)
 Cherry Blossom Society / Imperial Way faction
 Kwantung (North China Army)
 Manchurian Crisis 1931-33
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 Manchukuo
 Henry Pu-Yi
 Lytton Report 1933
 Zaibatsu
 War with China 1937
 Rape of Nanking
 “Greater east Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” 1940
 Japan and “empire”
 PHILIPPINES
 Revolt vs. Spanish 1890-1896
 Revolt vs. US 1898-1901
 War with Japan 1941-1945
 INDONESIA
 Aceh revolts 1900s
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 Secretive societies (BUDI UTOMO) early 1900s
 PKI 1920s
 Nationalist party and SUKARNO 1927
 Japan 1941
 Independence 1945
 INDOCHINA
 1880s on rebel groups
 VNQDD
 HO CHI MINH
 Nguyen Sinh Cunh, Nguyen Ai Quoc
 French Indochinese Communist Party 1924
 Việt Nam Ðộc Lập Ðồng Minh Hội (VIET MINH) 1930
 THAILAND
 Franco-Siamese War 1939-1940
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 Alliance with Japan 1941
 FREE THAI
 BURMA
 Separation from India 1937
 Aung San
 Fall of France 1940
 Vichy government
 Viet Minh
 Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
 Agent Lucius
 “Independence” Sep. 1945
 MacArthur
 Quezon
 Bataan
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 Hukbalahaps
 Kalibapi
 Franco-Siamese War 1939-40
 Phibun Songkram (Plaek Pibulsongkram)
 Free Thai
 Sukarno
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