What name did China go by after the fall of the Qing Dynasty?
Republic of China
100
What was the first area of China that Japan conquered?
Manchuria
100
What place did the Japanese attack that brought the US into the war?
Pearl Harbor
100
What country colonized Vietnam starting in the late 1800’s?
France
100
What is the “Domino Theory”?
If one country falls to communism, other countries fall as well.
200
What were the names of the two political parties vying for control of China during the 1920’s? (English versions are fine)
Chinese Communist Party, Nationalists.
200
During its first war with China, Japan also conquered this Asian country.
Korea
200
During this battle, which the Japanese considered the turning point of the war, the majority of the remaining Japanese fleet was sunk.
Battle of Leyte
200
What outside world event caused the French colonial government to allow Japan to peacefully enter and take over Vietnam?
Germany's conquest of France during WW2
200
What Viet Minh offensive showed the American public that the war was not being won and turned public opinion against it?
Tet Offensive
300
Which country fought two wars with China to force them to allow the sale of Opium?
United Kingdom.
300
Japan stunned Europe when it beat the following country in a war in 1905.
Russia
300
What were the names of the two Japanese cities on which the nuclear bomb was used?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
300
What was the name of the battle in which the Viet Minh decisively defeated the French?
Dien Bien Phu
300
What was the name of the US President who decided to escalate the US presence in Vietnam in the 1960’s?
Lyndon B Johnson
400
What policies helped the Qing conquer China?
Letting conquered people have power, not killing them.
400
What were some of the changes brought about to Japan during this period? (name at least 3)
Modernizing military & Navy, Bureaucratic government, industrialization, suppression of Japanese cultural norms,
400
During this disastrous Japanese offensive, four aircraft carriers were sunk.
Battle of Midway
400
What country occupied Vietnam from 1941-1945? What did they do as they left Vietnam?
Japan. Arrested and got rid of French colonial officials.
400
What US President decided to start winding down US military presence in Vietnam?
Richard Nixon
500
In 1860, the Chinese Emperor died, leaving his 5 year old son as the ________ ruler of China. In reality, Empress Dowager Cixi, his mother was the ________ ruler of China, a position she held until her death in 1908.
De Jure, De Facto.
500
What was the name of the movement in Japan to modernize and westernize the country?
Meiji Restoration
500
The battle over this island, northeast of Australia, become a slow war of attrition.
Guadacanal
500
What two events elsewhere in the world heavily influenced the creation of the Viet Minh and its ideas?
The Russian Revolution and WW1
500
What was the name of this strategy of winding down US presence and letting the South Vietnamese defend themselves?