Why was the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 significant?
A) Japan gave Russia control of Korea.
B) Japan was given a chance to annex Siberia.
C) Japan announced to the world that it was now a major power.
D) Japan was getting back at the Russians for shaming them in a confrontation twenty years earlier.
E) Japan was receiving much needed capital from the reparations the Russians had to pay.
C
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