READING ANALYSIZE OVER "OPEN DOOR POLICY IN CHINA"
1. What was McKinley's Sec. of State Hay alarmed was about what was happening to the Chinese Empire?
2. List the five countries that had established spheres of influence in China during the 1890s.
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3. What does 'spheres of influence' in China mean the five countries you listed above could potentially do in China?
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4. Why did Sec. of State Hay send a diplomatic note in 1899 to nations holding spheres of influence?
5. What did Sec. Hay ask nations holding spheres of influence to accept?
6. Because the replies to Hay's note were evasive, & no nation rejected the concept of the Open Door Policy, what did Hay declare?
7. What two things were on the rise in China as the 19th century ended?
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8. Who attacked foreign settlements and murdered dozens of Christian missionaries in 1900?
9. Why did U.S. troops participate in an international force that marched into Peking (Beijing)?
10. What happened when U.S. troops marched into Beijing & what was China forced to do?
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11. What did Sec. of State Hay fear that the expeditionary force in China might do?
12. When Sec. Hay wrote his second note to the imperialistic powers over China, list the two issues that the U.S. was committed to in China:
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13. How did Sec. Hay's first and second notes impact U.S. policy on China?
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14. How did the Open Door Policy for China impact relations with Japan in the 1930s?
15. Even though Hay's notes did not deter other nations from exploiting the situation in China, what kept European powers kept from grabbing
larger pieces of China?