The first world war breaks out in 19 14. The united states came out of it much, much stronger than wou know what they were like when they went into it. But they paid a much larger price in doing it. In this case, for the japanese, this is a wonderful opportunity to, like, hit the jack pot in way they haven't hit it since that first war in china. They're forced to back off on the most outrageous demands and set up conflict with their allies. This freaks the chinese out; i was reading an article today about how some historians are trying to turn  the Chinean colony of Japans into one of