Tag: United States

A League of Their Own

Japan emerges as a major player among world powers as their ambassadors helped finalize the postwar treaties and create a new international body meant to stop large-scale wars before they began: The League of Nations. However, trouble continued brewing on the Korean Peninsula as a new mass movement for national liberation took to the streets.

The Black Ships

Season 12, Episode 10: The Black Ships
A photograph of Commodore Matthew C. Perry toward the end of his life, around 1856. Commodore Perry succeeded in forcing Japan to open its nation to foreign trade in 1854. Source: Public Domain
A Japanese illustration of one of Commodore Perry’s Black Ships. Source: Public Domain
A Japanese illustration depicting Perry (center) sitting amid some of his officers. Source: Public Domain
An illustration of the second fleet which Perry brought to Japan when he returned in 1854. Source: Public Domain
This statue of Perry stands in the city of Newport in the state of Rhode Island. Source: Ahodges7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons