Vocabulary
Historical Facts
Events
Goals
Government
100
The way of life propagated by Confucius in the 6th–5th century BCE and followed by people from Southeast Asia for more than two millennia.
What is Confucianism?
100
Edo is replaced and Japan has a new capital in 1868.
What is Tokyo?
100
Japan is victorious and asserts its first gains as an imperial power. Korea is “turned over” (colonized) to Japan and China cedes Taiwan to Japan.
What is the Sino-Japanese War (1894)?
100
What year were most samurai classified as “commoners”
What is 1872?
100
In power from 1868 to 1945.
What is Imperial Japan?
200
A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target utilized during World War 2.
What is Kamikaze?
200
Powerful feudal lords abolished in 1871 during the Meiji Restoration.
What are the Daimyo?
200
Mission that prioritized diplomatic relations with the West, particularly the United States in1873.
What is the Iwakura Mission of 1873?
200
Viewed as a symbol of both modern and traditional Japanese values.
What is an Emperor?
200
Abolished by the Meiji government in 1871 to prioritize their economy.
What are monopolies?
300
They served the Daimyo's and in turn the Shogun and supported their lords authority. They did not own land but in return for their military service their economic needs were provided for by the lower classes.
What are the Samurai?
300
What is the Rising Sun/Meiji Flag?
300
Japan fights against Czarist Russia from 1904-1905 that kept Russia out of East Asia.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
300
By prioritizing assimilation, who lost their right to wear swords and distinctive hairstyles in Japan?
What are the Samurai?
300
Japan's National Strategy "Rich _______, Strong ________"
Rich Nation, Strong Army
400
A hereditary commander in chief in feudal Japan.
What is the Shogun?
400
They overthrew 250 years of Tokugawa Shogunate rule
What is the Meiji Restoration?
400
Agreement between Germany and Japan in 1936 to fight be allies in fighting communism.
What is the Anti-Comintern Pact?
400
Loyal to the Emperor as Supreme Commander because of ....
What is an oath?
400
Newly given freedoms to the people of Japan include...
Freedom of Citizenship or Profession
500
They served as local rulers and were connected to the shogun through oaths and land grants.
What is the daimyo?
500
Considered commoners in 1872.
What are the Samurai?
500
Signed in 1940 to formalize the Axis powers to create a new world order for Europe and Asia.
What is the Tripartite Pact?
500
System that brought Foreign teachers to Japan and let Japanese students study abroad.
What is the National Education System?
500
Money given to the Meiji government after the abolishment of the feudal system.
What is taxation?