What was a result of the reform program launched by the japanese leadership in the late nineteenth century?

Explanation:

This was the period known as the Meiji Restoration. It began in 1868.  Shogun rule was ended and the emperor was restored to full power over the country.  The new emperor took the name "Meiji" meaning "enlightened rule."  It was under the reign of Emperor Meiji, which lasted till 1912, that Japan did much modernizing and westernizing.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

soviet influence spread across eastern europe sharply during and after wwii. the soviet armies liberated the countries in eastern europe and occupied them from the germans as they were forced to retreat towards germany.