The Atomic Bomb
The atomic bombings of the Japanese cities __________ on August 6th and __________ August 9th of 1945, marked the end of World War II.
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
While taking European colonists as Prisoners of War, Japan initially tried to win over local populations with the phrase _______ for _______!
Asia for Asians!
During the global ______ _____ (after1929), Japan increasingly became a nationalistic state dominated by the military. This was due to the collapse of demand for their silk and cheap manufactured goods and difficult importing natural resources.
Great Depression
_________ __________wrote a letter to President _____________ on August 2nd, 1939 regarding the development of the ________ ________.
Albert Einstein
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
nuclear weapon / atomic bomb
Japan seized Brunei on _______ _____ _______ (just 9 days after their attack on Pearl Harbor) due to the fact that Brunei was _____ rich.
December 16th, 1945
oil
______ _______ was deified during the 1930's in Japan. After WWII, the monarchy lost its divine status.
Emperor Hirohito
After the successful test of the atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, the bomb was dropped on Japan _______ days later.
21
After the ______ ___ ________ in early 1942, more than 80,000 people (mostly British) were taken as POWs. _______ _______ described this as the "foulest disaster and greatest capitulation in British history".
fall of Singapore
Winston Churchill
In 1931 the Japanese staged a revolt, blowing up their own train tracks and blaming it on Chinese rebels. This was known as the _______ ______ and was the manufactured provocation for setting up a puppet state (with Emperor Pu Yi as its head) in the province of ________.
Mukden Incident
Manchuria
Despite a petition from the physicists who created the nuclear bomb not to use it on human beings and the opposition of Chief of Staff _____ _____, President ______ ______ decided to use drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
William Leahy
Harry Truman
What were the living conditions like for the local populations of Borneo during Japanese occupation?
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Which Southeast Asian (under European control) nations did Japan capture, occupy, and attempt to colonize during the early 1940's?
British Borneo, Burma, and Malaya; Dutch Indonesia; French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos); The Philippines.
What are two reasons the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified and two reasons they were not?
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POWs were killed by the Japanese in great numbers during the _____ _____ and the building of the ______ _______ between Thailand and Burma.
death march
death railway
China
Russia
Korean