APWH Modern: Unit 7 (Contemporary Era) - East Asia

Chinese Communist Party

Founded 1921 in response to failure of the Revolution of 1911

Guomindang

Sun’s party, clashed with Yuan

New Culture Movement

Movement aimed to abolish the old system and introduce western institutions in China

Chiang Kai-Shek

Succeeded Sun Yat-Sen. Struck communists in 1927 and put the communists’ leaders into hiding

Mao Zedong

A CCP leader who believed that the revolution must be based on rural peasants, not the urban workers

Zaibatsu

Business cartels in Japan in which manufacturing processes were concentrated in. Had incredible control over various industries. Concentrated the wealth

Manchukuo

Japan invaded (1931) and consolidated control over this region and expanded into Northern China.

Japanese Imperialism Leading up to Pearl Harbor

Japan was an imperial power in Manchukuo (Manchuria) and parts of northern China. But most importantly, Japan attacked British, French, and American rule in Southeast Asia, which led to the US threatening to place an embargo on Japan. Figuring that they’d end up warring either way, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Hiroshima: Received the first atomic bomb by the US in 1945

Nagasaki: Received the next eight days later

These bombings officially ended WWII

Japanese abuses in East and Southeast Asia

Basically treated conquered peoples awfully.