United States
America's policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations during WW2 before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
Isolationism
Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
To prevent westerners from influencing Chinese traditions and Confucian values, this was the only place for trade
Canton
Germany's type of government in WW2 that is characterized by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, emphasizing nationalism
Fascism
The idea that men had certain rights (was basically a calling for democracy)
Chartism
This person brought ships over to Japan prompting the Japanese to open their ports to trade and begin the end to isolationist policies
Commodore Matthew Perry
This document eflected confucianism, but also new ideas and ways of thinking, and put the shogun out of power, but kept the emperor
The 1889 Japanese Constitution
This illegal drug attracted soldiers and lower officials in China and created imbalanced trade as China became dependent on the drug and the Chinese were using gold and silver to pay debt created by the this drug
Opium
This event took place in March 1938 as an attempt to reintergrate all Germans into a single homeland
Annexation of Austria
This was constructed in England to praise progress and modern industry
The Crystal Palace
In 1954 the Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson and declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal, ordering all public schools to be desegregated
Brown v Board of Education
Mutsuhito "Enlightened Ruler" became ruler of Japan after Shogunate toppled. He introduced reformation in which a new army, government, and schools were created
Meiji Emperor
A philosophy that adheres to the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, this ideology describes how to ensure a stable government and an orderly society in the present world and stresses a moral code of conduct.
Confucianism
Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people
Lebensraum
A time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated human waste was very strong in central London
The Great Stink of 1858
African American poet who used rhythms influenced by jazz music to describe the rich culture of African American life as well as the culture of Harlem (majorly impacting the Harlem Renaissance)
Langston Hughes
As announced in 1940 by Japan's prime minister, the area extending from Manchuria to the Dutch East Indies in which Japan would expand its influence
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
In Confucian thought, this is one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors.
Filial Piety
Exhibition designed to show works that Hitler approved of, depicting statuesque blonde nudes along with idealized soldiers and landscapes
Great German Art Exhibition
This place was the most valuable of all British colonies because it was a supplier of raw materials and its population was a good market
India
Buffalo soldier commander who believed that to "Save the Man," one had to "Kill the Indian"
Richard Henry Pratt
1904 war between against Russia over imperial possessions (Manchuria and Korea) in which Japan emerged victorious
Russo-Japanese War
The brutal murder of Chinese citizens by the Japanese during the Sino Japanese war
Rape of Nanking
A socialist declaration written by German philosophers Marx and Engels in 1842 describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views
The Communist Manifesto
British prime minister from 1940-1945 (and again 1951-1955) who helped lead a successful Allied strategy alongside the U.S. and Soviet Union during World War II to defeat the Hitler and create post-war peace.
Winston Churchill