The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Japan was a largely closed society, it did not want diplomatic and commercial contact with foreigners. The United States and other nations tried to establish formal relations with Japan, but were repeatedly denied. So, in 1852, President Millard Fillmore ordered Commodore Matthew Perry to command the U.S. Navy's East India Squadron and to establish diplomatic relations with Japan. Perry initially delivered President Fillmore's request for a treaty to a representative of the Japanese emperor in 1853. He returned with a larger force in 1854, arriving in Edo (Now Tokyo) Bay, and obtained the signature of the Japanese authorities to the Treaty of Kanagawa on March of 1854. This treaty led to significant commercial trade between the United States and Japan, contributed to opening Japan to other Western nations, and ultimately resulted in the modernization of the Japanese state. The Japanese lived in an archipelago, an archipelago is a groups of many islands in a large body of water.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was considered the father of communism. His most famous analysis of history is the summed up opening of the The Communist Manifesto: "The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie (The capitalist class)produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." What this shows is his hate for the capitalists who made money off of the poor workers. Although communism isn't a good idea Marx's ideas were.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was disappointed with the treatment of workers in Europe and generally the industrial revolution. Karl Marx thought that the workers should control the factories and farms instead of the landlords. He wanted to create a revolution with the workers of the worlds. Marx believed that the workers were controlled by religion.