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Teddy Roosevelt won it in his second term for helping end the Russo-Japanese War.
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Through the First Sino-Japanese war, the Russo-Japanese war, and WWI Japan fulfilled its ambition of becoming a major power, only to over-reach and descend into ruin on 8.15.
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And after the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Roosevelt changed America's diplomatic posture from competitor with the other imperialist powers in dominating the world to mediator in their growing conflicts.
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The first occasion demonstrated to the world that Japan had arrived as a legitimate military power with its stunning defeat of the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5.
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The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.
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