Module 2 Military History Japan and the U.S quiz

Tokugawa Period

1603-1867

-Was led by a shogun (supreme military leader)

-Economy based on feudalism

-Act of Seclusion (1636)

cut off trade with western nations

Religion in Japan

Confucianism (Strong emphasis on loyalty and duty )

Meiji Period

-Significant social, political, and economic changes

-Feudal system abolished

what resources did Japan have to inport

rubber, tin, iron, and oil

Who did Japan attack in 1904

Russia

what happens to trhe U.S at the end of WW1

• world’s greatest industrial power 

Nativism -

prejudice against foreign born people

Isolationism -

policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

Franklin D. Rossevelet

wins election on landslide (1932)

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Must lead the U.S in worst economic disaster

Neutrality Acts

Outlawed U.S from selling or loaning arms to nations at war ‘

What conflict caused America to come out of neutrality

Japan invading China

What jobs were African Americans given in the armed forces ?

cook,quartermaster,grave digger

How many Jews did the U.S let in

100,000

What ship caring Jews did the U.S turn away

St.Louis

What do Christians face in Japan

Severe Persecution

Russo - Japenese war

With Russians distracted and demoralized, Japanese invade and capture the Korean Peninsula

-By 1905, Russia forced to pursue peace agreement 

Treaty of Portsmouth

Russia would leave Manchuria and recognize Japanese control of Korean Peninsula ( Mediated by Theodore Roosevelt )

what was the the aftermath of the Russo -Japanese War

War left Japan broke and they wanted reparations from Russia

who did Japan Annex in 1910

Korea

How did Japan Assimilate Korea into thier culture

 forced Koreans to worship gods of Imperial Japan and speak Japanese

How did the Treaty of Versallies leave Japan

Angry and Bitter

Hirohito

seen as Japan’s highest spiritual authority (seen as divine) and commander-in-chief of armed forces

Manchurian Incident 

japanese army officers staged a railway explosion they blamed on Chinese bandits

-Used event as excuse to take over Manchuria in northeastern China

Rape of Nanking

apan invades into China causing war

-Japanese soldiers massacred 200,000 civilians and prisoners in and around city of Nanking (China’s capital at time)