Raging Reindeer
Japan's Meiji Restoration of 1868 was an effort by the emperor of the country to strengthen Japan through ______________________.
modernization and industrialization
China was forced to give up control of Korea and Taiwan to Japan in 1895 due to ___________________.
the Treaty of Shimonoseki
The three major events which further contributed towards the progression of Japanese politics towards militarism in the early 1930's included all of the following:
The League of Blood Incident, the May 15 Incident, the February 24 incident
45. When the USA formally entered the war, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that ____________________________________.
they should defeat Germany before Japan
Japan's honor- based samurai code meant that __________________________.
backing down or surrendering in war was seen as especially dishonorable
In the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Japanese Prince Fumimaro Konoe proposed ______________.
a racial equality clause be included in the covenant of the League of Nations
The rise of militarism in Japanese political leadership also steered Japanese foreign policy towards expansionism, fueled by Japan's desire for ________________________.
equality and recognition
The allies demanded unconditional surrender from the Japanese because _____________________.
they desired complete victory and they worried about a situation similar to the one after World War 1 when Germany later sought revenge
By the end of the 19th century, Russia was attempting to establish a permanent military base in Manchuria, which was seen by Japan as _________________________.
a threat to Japan and its interests in Korea
Apart from internal economic problems, Japan also faced problems of _____________.
overpopulation
The Japanese sought to expand into Southeast Asia due to ______________________.
availability of important raw materials
Even though the Soviets had joined forces with Britain and the USA against Germany, they were deeply divided by ideology. Stalin wanted a communist post-war order, while Churchill and Truman wanted ___________________________.
to contain the spread of communism
Russia did not believe that it needed to negotiate with Japan because ________________.
Japan was not seen by the Soviet Union as an equal power
The rise of Japanese _____________ played a large role in Japan's expansionist ambitions and aggressive attitude towards relations with other countries.
militarism
By 1941 Japanese army and navy chiefs felt that their oil reserves would run out quickly, that war with the USA was inevitable and that _______________________________.
a quick knockout blow against the USA and rapid southern expansion would convince the Americans to negotiate peace
Allied scientists had begun working on an atomic bomb since 1942 under the ______________________.
Manhattan Project
In 1902, Britain signed an alliance with Japan called the ____________________.
the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
When Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai was assassinated in May 1932, parliamentary rule in Japan effectively ended and ___________________ was declared.
martial law
A military strategy involving a series of battles whereby the military forces attack strategically important islands one by one, establishing a stronghold and then moving onto the next island is known as ________________.
island hopping
The name of the second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 was ____________________.
Fat Man