People
Reforms
Politics
War Before WWII
WWII and aftermath
100
The "Father of Modern China"
Sun Yat-Sen
100
Failed Chinese economic reform initiated by Mao Zedong that included the formation of communes
Great Leap Forward
100
Name of the Chinese nationalist party
Kuomintang/Guomindang (KMT)
100
First time an Asian nation defeated a European power
Russo-Japanese War
100
The SCAP, placed in charge of the Occupation of Japan by Allied forces after the war
General Douglas MacArthur
200
Japanese emperor during World War II
Hirohito
200
Name of the major reform policy of Chinese CCP leader Deng Xiaoping
Four Modernizations
200
Japanese political system in which daimyo had to serve in Edo every other year and their families were held in Edo permanently
Sankin Kotai
200
Battle in which Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated Ishida Mitsunari and became shogun
Battle of Sekigahara
200
A group of Japanese army officers blew up railroad tracks on the South Manchurian Railway and blamed the Chinese
Manchurian Incident
300
Nationalist Chinese leader ousted by Mao Zedong and the communists
Chiang Kai-Shek
300
Demonstration by Chinese people protesting foreign imperialism
May 4th Movement
300
Japanese political party that favored continued alliance with the U.S.
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
300
Final victory of the Chinese Communist Party to oust the nationalists
Battle of Huai-Hai
300
Pact signed between Japan, Germany, and Italy
Tripartite Pact
400
Founder of the Manchu state and the banner system
Nurgaci
400
Prestigious Japanese organization formed in 1873 devoted to the study of Western knowledge
Meirokusha
400
Chiang Kai-Shek was imprisoned by his own military for refusing to refocus his forces against Japan
Xi'an Incident
400
Uprising by an anti-Christian, anti-foreign Chinese group that was supported by the Qing rulers
Boxer Rising
400
Political institution that held the highest political power under Japan's new Constitution of 1947
Diet
500
Militarist Japanese general and Prime Minister during World War II
Tojo Hideki
500
List Sun Yat-Sen's Three Principles of the People
Nationalism, Democracy, and People's Livelihood
500
Period of time in China from 1916-1928 in which there was no central government
Warlord Era
500
The worst civil war in world history
Taiping Rebellion
500
The bombing of Pear Harbor (M/D/Y)
December 7, 1941
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