Feudal Japan
What is the name for samurai code of honor?
Bushido
What country forced Japan to open up?
United States
What was the name of the strategy the United States used to defeat Japan?
Island Hopping
Why does the Korean War have an unsatisfying end?
Nothing changes compared to the beginning of the war
What was the Manhattan Project code for?
The atomic bomb
Fill in the blanks:
The daimyo _______ the land.
The samurai ______ the land.
The commoners _______ the land.
Protected
Farmed
Why did the United States want Japan to open up?
Trade and a place to resupply ships
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
Japan was looking to deal a knockout blow to the United States.
Why did the United States favor capitalism and democracy?
Freedom and Choice
Why did President Truman decide to use the atomic bomb instead of invading Japan?
Why might a daimyo want to hire a ninja/What was a ninja's job or role?
Deception
Assassination
What was Japan's role in World War 1?
What was the purpose of using kamikaze planes towards the end of WWII?
Communism promotes that everyone is equal and that resources are shared equally. Why does this not work?
Human greed.
A typhoon
How did isolationism hurt Japan?
It cut off trade and caused Japan to fall behind other countries.
How did the Meiji Restoration change Japan?
It modernized Japan?
Why was the Battle of Midway a turning point in World War II?
Japan lost four aircraft carriers
Why is the United States against Communism and Authoritarianism?
Control
Put the following Japanese social classes in order.
Why did Shogun Tokugawa want to change Japan?
There was too much conflict and war in Japan?
What did Japan prove through winning the Russo-Japanese War?
Give two reasons why Japan flipped sides at the end of WWI...
Japanese immigration
Lack of resources
The Great Depression
Upset about the amount of land
What is domino theory?
The belief that if one country becomes communist others will follow.
Can there every be a purely communist country?
No