East Asia Geography
The names of the four main colonial powers that had spheres of influence in China.
Britain, France, Russia, and Japan
The name of the Nationalist Party in China and it's first great leader.
Kuomintang and Sun-Yatsen
What is gunboat diplomacy?
The date which will live in infamy - ___ __, 19__.
What is December 7, 1941?
The strategy used by the Allies to get closer to Japan by taking less-defended bases, preferably with airstrips, along the way.
What is island-hopping?
The names of five nations in East Asia.
Answers may vary - China, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea
A description of the Mukden Incident including the Japanese response and what it led to.
What is also known as the Manchurian Incident and was when Japanese forces responded to an explosion of a railroad in Chinese-controlled Manchuria by occupying the town which led to the full invasion of Manchuria in 1931?
The Treaty of Kanagawa
What was the forced treaty imposed by the U.S. on Japan that opened two ports to American ships in 1854?
The two main Japanese objectives for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What were to Destroy (at least 1-4) Battleships and Give the Japanese military enough time (6 months) to advance to the Dutch East Indies by crippling the U.S. Pacific Fleet?
Definitions of demilitarization and democratization and who initiated them in postwar Japan?
What were the terms for disbanding the military of Japan and creating democracy in Japan initiated by Douglas MacArthur?
The names of two bodies of water in East Asia.
Answers may vary - Long River (Chiang Jiang), Yellow River (Yangtze), Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea
The reason for the communists' Long March during the Chinese Civil War.
What is due to an escape from Jiang Jieshi's 700,000 - man army that outnumbered and surrounded the communists?
A result from militarist leaders taking power in Japan after the Great Depression.
Answers may vary - Blame the civilian government for economic problems, make Emperor Hirohito a symbol of state power, military leaders hold all control of transportation, military, government, and economy, and they seek to solve economic problems through military expansion.
The Marshall Admiral of the Imperial Navy and Commander-In-Chief of the Combined Fleet for Japan.
Who was (Isoroku) Yamamoto?
The name of the secret program to create an atomic bomb and the two cities in Japan where they were used in an effort to end the war.
What is the Manhattan Project and Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The names of two natural physical features in East Asia.
Answers may vary - Himalayan Mountain Range, North China Plain, Gobi Desert, Tian Shan Mountains
The reason for the May Fourth Movement and the group who started it.
What was the movement started by angry college students in response to the unfair Treaty of Versailles, which gave German colonial possessions taken during WW1 to Japan even though China joined the fight against the Triple Alliance?
Two effects of the Russo-Japanese War
Japan destroyed Russia's entire Baltic Fleet
Japan controlled all of Korea and Manchuria
The names of two battleships that were hit during the attack on Pearl Harbor and a brief description of what happened to them.
Answers will vary - Probable answers are USS Arizona - hit in the magazine, exploded, sunk and USS Nevada hit while moving out of the harbor and scuttled, beached on Hospital Point which prevented sinking.
The reason why the Battle of Coral Sea is considered a tactical victory.
What is the prevention of a Japanese advance to Australia?
The names of five East Asian cities and the nations in which they are located.
Answers may vary - Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Xi’an, Beijing(Peking), Tianjing, Pyongyang, Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, Ulaanbaatar - and their respective nations.
The three principles that Sun-Yatsen put forth for his nationalist government.
What are the following:
1-nationalism
2-people’s rights (democracy)
3-people’s livelihood (economic security)
Three changes made during the Meiji Era (Restoration)
Answers will vary - What are the military draft, greater literacy, students could also study abroad / teachers included foreign experts, medical schools that taught western medicine, styles of clothing, hairstyles, culture, and sports such as baseball, drinking tea, end of feudalism, German-inspired form of government/constitution, British-inspired Navy
The names of two of the three heroes of Pearl Harbor and two facts about them.
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The name of the commission to investigate Pearl Harbor's unpreparedness and the names of the two officers that were originally found to be "derelict of their duties."
Who are "Dorie" Miller, Phil Rasmussen, and Donald K. Ross and two facts about them.
OR
What is the Roberts Commission and General Short and Admiral Kimmel?
Two facts about three battles, excluding Coral Sea
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Three facts about two battles, excluding Coral Sea
Answers will vary - Facts must be accurate