Modern Japan
extremist patriotic organization
Black Dragon Society
A group of mid-level army officers acting without government approval was responsible for the invasion of ______________.
Manchuria
industrialized territory returned by Great Britain to China in 1997
Hong Kong
Murderous yet beloved Communist leader of China
Mao Zedong
Mao’s controversial land reform program that put people in communes _______________________.
The Great Leap Forward
large financial and industrial corporations
zaibatsu
The zaibatsu system contribute to the rise of militarism in Japan as traditionalists blamed __________________________ influence for economic problems.
Western
defensive alliance led by the United States together with two countries that have recently drawn closer to Asia
ANZUS
Powerful Chinese leader who helped modernize the country
Deng Xiaoping
The __________________________ were youths who destroyed the four ‘olds’: ideas, culture, customs, habits .
Red Guard
leader of the occupation administration in Japan
General Douglas MacArthur
By the first two decades of the twentieth century, Japan moved toward a more __________________________ government.
democratic
industrial powerhouse and former British colony that is now an independent state
Singapore
Areas where people formed massive farms in Great Leap Forward
communes
The _________________________ was propagandist writing that was read by all people in Red China.
Little Red Book
one of Japan’s most popular postwar writers; used contemporary language in works such as The Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
One of the major social and economic problems that faced Japan after WWI was the __________________________.
Great Depression
home of Daewoo, Samsung, and Hyundai and one of the "Asian Tigers”
South Korea
An atmosphere of constant fervor to achieve communism in China
Permanent Revolution
Communists settled in __________________________ .
Mainland China
The five events that contributed to Japan becoming a military state (5):
1. military draft law passed
2. economic resources under government control
3. political parties merged into one
4. labor unions disbanded
5. education, culture purged of Western ideas; traditional values stressed
But by the 1930s, the Japanese government was dominated by the __________________________ and other supporters of Japanese expansionism.
military
anti-Communist island that calls itself the "Republic of China”; the yam
Taiwan
Maoist culture encouraged
rights for women
Beijing site of pro-democracy protests in 1989 __________________________.
Tiananmen Square