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| 6220118919 | Battle of omdurman | British vs Sudan with decisive British win because of superior technology(machine guns, etc) | 0 | |
| 6220123144 | Monroe Doctrine | States that America(US) will no longer tolerate European colonization. Was not enforced very often except for the occasional American intervention | 1 | |
| 6220126060 | Opium wars | British needed lucrative trade in China. Wars more about freedom of trade than opium. China was crushed and forced to allow free trade and hand over modern day Hong Kong | 2 | |
| 6220128618 | Mexican-American war | Set off by American annexation of Texas. Ended with treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo. US paid 15 million dollars as compensation for Mexican losses, but also received much of mexicos land | 3 | |
| 6220131832 | Is admiral perry in Tokyo harbour | Perry forced Japanese to trade with US making it the first connection with outsiders(aside from Dutch) in 200 years | 4 | |
| 6220134638 | Sepoy rebellion | Rebellion of Indian soldiers against British east India company due to materials in their rifle cartridges being against their religion (beef and pork for waterproofing) | 5 | |
| 6220134639 | Berlin conference | The meeting of European imperial powers to decide borders for African states and lay ground rules for European colonization in Africa. Lots of African countries did not recognize/acknowledge the boundaries. | 6 | |
| 6220139354 | Sino-Japanese war | Stemmed from conflict over Korea but expanded to control of Manchuria as well. Japanese emerged victorious | 7 | |
| 6220141562 | Russo-Japanese war | Fought over Korea, Russians were crushed and Japan emerged as the first Asian imperial power | 8 | |
| 6220143144 | Spanish-American war | America intervened on behalf of Cuba's desire for independence. US victorious and received many territories from the "peace of Paris" (Guam, Puerto Rico, temporary control of Cuba,etc) | 9 | |
| 6220146961 | Seven years war | fighting between French and colonists merged into a European conflict involving France, Austria, and Russia against Prussia and Britain. ... Peace was declared in 1763 through the Peace of Paris, which ended French power in North America. | 10 | |
| 6220146962 | Crimean war | Main cause was the Christians rights in the holy land. France promoted Roman Catholicism while Russia promoted Eastern Orthodox Church. After churches worked it out ottomans declared war on Russia with the help of Britain and France and defeated them. | 11 | |
| 6220148009 | Boer war | British fought two independents in Africa and won absorbing them | 12 | |
| 6220148337 | French occupation of indochina | Basically just France wanting what every other European power wanted, highly lucritave trade with Asia | 13 |
