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Roosevelt knew that American business was involved in China, so he made it a point to protect the Open Door Policy. The Russians and Japanese began a war over influence in China.

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Roosevelt wanted business in China
The Chinese economy was crap
So Roosevelt made the Open Door Policy
The Russian and Japanese decided to scrap

So the war killed millions of dudes and it tramatized the people who were just wounded and it ruined their lives completely

Roosevelt invited the countries to meet in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and agree on a Japanese victory. the Japanese received port Arthur, the southern half of the Sakhalin Islands, and control of Korea while the Russians did not have to pay reparations.

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As a result of the Russo-Japanese War, Japanese immigration increased. This began a wave of anti-Japanese agitation. In San Francisco (1906) the school board put the 93 Japanese pupils in a seperate school. The Japenses government regarded this as an insult.

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