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Japan's first constitution was attributed to

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Prince Shotoku

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Japan's first emperor was

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Jimmu

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Christians were persecuted and crucified in Japan under the rule of

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Hideyoshi

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Leading the revolt against Tokugawa were the daimyo from

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Satsuma and Choshu

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The Tokugawa Shogun based his power on

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Control of 1/4 of the nation's rice crop and military capability

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Rangaku was the Japanese term denoting

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Dutch studies

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He is most famous for signing the Harris Treaty with the United States, granting access to ports for trade to American merchants and seamen and extraterritoriality to American citizens. This resulted in his assassination in front of the Imperial Palace

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Ii Naosuke

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The father of the modern Japanese army

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Yamagata Aritomo

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Samurai who had broken their loyalty to their Daimyo and responsible for murdering foreigners were known in Japanese as

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Ronin

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The first US consul to Japan

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Townsend Harris

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Firearms were introduced into Japan by Dutch traders

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False

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Under Tokugawa rule, Dutch traders were confined to the island of Dejima

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True

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Commodore Matthew C. Perry was President Fillmore's first choice to open Japan

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False

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The term Shogun could be translated as barbarian fighting general

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True

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Gaiatsu is a term denoting foreign pressure

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True

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The Satsuma rebellion of 1877 was led by Saigo Takamori

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True

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The most popular voice urging a turn to the West was Fukuzawa Yukichi

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True

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The Iwakura Mission was a Japanese diplomatic journey around the world, initiated in 1871 by the oligarchs of the Meiji era

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True

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Hakko Ichiu is an imperial slogan meaning to unite the world under the Emperor

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True

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The best regarded US naval strategist was Alfred Thayer Mahan

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True

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The Shogun's government was known in Japanese as

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Bakafu

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The Great Names or feudal lords were known as

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Daimyo

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One who serves is known in Japanese as

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Samurai

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The Tokugawa policy of closed country is known in Japanese as

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Sakkoku

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The first Japanese constitution in 604 valued

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peace (wa)

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Between the years 1900-1912, the US and Japan turned from friendship to rivalry. One of the main reasons for this turn was

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Blatant racism

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Since 1868, the Emperor Meiji had been guided by a group of elder statesmen known as the

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genro

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By 1900, Japanese emigration to California had reached

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24,000

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In 1906, Roosevelt and his military advisors began their first strategic planning for war against Japan. This plan was known as

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War Plan Orange

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After Japan's victory over Russia in the war of 1904-05 a capital infusion replenished Japan's exhausted reserves. This infusion came from

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Leading Jewish investment bankers from New York City

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The Japanese economy greatly accelerated during the period of 1914-1918. This was due to

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Selling vast amounts of goods to European belligerents

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The 1912-26 reign of Emperor Yoshihito was known as the

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Taisho Era

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Mitsu, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, were examples of

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Zaibatsu

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In January 1915, Japan delivered the Twenty-one Demands to China. Among them were

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Acquire all German rights in Shantung, vast concessions in South Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, an additional 99 years to the lease of the South Manchurian Railway

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The Chinese Revolution in 1911 that brought the downfall of the Ching Dynasty

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Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shi-k'a

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Victory in the Spanish-American War gave the US control of

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Phillippines

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The political party Seiyukai was formed in 1900 by the Choshu statesman

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Ito Hirobumi

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The 1899-1900 anti-foreign movement in China that targeted missionaries and diplomats was known as the

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Boxer Rebellion

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The 1902 alliance between Japan and blank was championed by Komura Jutaro and shook the international terrain

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Great Britain

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Fukoku Kyohei policy acclaimed by nearly all Japanese officials translates as

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Rich country strong military

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The Mitsui zaibatsu was controlled by the Iwasaki family

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False

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The first commoner Prime Minister of Japan was Hara Takashi aka Hara Kei

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True

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President Woodrow Wilson's obsession was to create the League of Nations

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True

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the Treatu of Versailles ended World War 2

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False

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The two provinces that led the overthrow of the Tokugawa bakufu were Choshu and Satsuma

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True

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The treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War was the Treaty of Portsmouth

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True

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Large financial cliques that controlled the Japanese economy were known as, zaibatsu

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True

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In 1912 after a reign lasting 44 years, the Meiji Emperor died

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True

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The great clash between the Americans and Japanese systems began over China

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True

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Japan annexed Korea in 1910

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True

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The Senator who headed the Foreign Relations Committee and opposed President Wilson's Japan policy, calling Japan the coming danger of the world

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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The Washington Naval Conference was an attempt to limit construction of warships by

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America, Great Britain, and Japan

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The Five Power Treaty finally set the ratios of warships at

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5:5:3:1:7:1:7

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The attempt to limit immigration to the US based on race culminated in the

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1924 Exclusion Act

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The highly nationalistic idea which formed Japan's national policy or national seal the became personified in the Emperor

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Kokutai

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Japan's most important export to the US market in the 1920s was

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Silk

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The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact was an attempt to outlaw

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War

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The clash between the Kwantung army and Chinese forces at in 1937 led to all-out war between Japan and China

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The Marco Polo Bridge

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A term denoting foreign pressure is

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Gaiatsu

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The Japanese diplomatic journey around the world, initiated in 1871 by the oligarchs of the Meiji era was

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The Iwakura Mission

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Japan annexed Manchurai in 1910

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False

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Baron Shibusawa was Japan's leading financier

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True

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act severley affected foreign trade

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True

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The last emperor of China and head of the puppet government in Manchuria was Pu-yi

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True

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The operating head of the JP Morgan Banking firm was Thomas Lamont

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True

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Japan's ambassador to the United States was Shidehara Kijuro

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True

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Herbert O. Yardley was responsible for the decoding of Japanese secret messages

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True

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Hideki Tojo led the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877

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False

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The 1912-26 reign of Emperor Yoshihito was known as the Meiji Era

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False

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Victory in the Spanish-American War gave the US control of the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean

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True

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Japan's central foreign policy figure in the 1930s and Japan's minister to China, later Prime Minister

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Shidehara Kijuro

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The Iwasaki family founded the zaibatsu known as

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Mitsubishi

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Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek led the Chinese army known as

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Kuomingtang

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Japan's army in Manchuria was known as the

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Kwangtung Army

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The Japanese name for Manchuria

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Machuku

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Authorized the expenditure of $1.1 billion over ten years to build a navy second to none

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The Naval Act of 1938

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The US President at the time of the Japanese invation of China in 1937 was

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The dominant member of the Japanese army's control faction was

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Tojo

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The US ambassador to Japan at the outbreak of WW2 was

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Joseph Grew

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Japan was heavily dependent on US exports of

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Scrap iron and oil

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Japanese foreign trade was monopolized by the combined efforts of Mitsu and Mitsubishi

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True

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Prince Konoe declared on November 3, 1938, that Japan would reconstruct China with a tripartite relationship of Japan, Manchukuo and Russia

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False

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Japan's ambassador to the US at the onset of the war in the Pacific was Nomura Kichisaburo

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True

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Issei and Nissei are terms describing Japanese immigrants to the US

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True

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Japan's initial military setback came at The Battle of the Coral Sea

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True

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Hakko Ichiu was a slogan used by the Japanese to convince South East Asians that all nation are brothers

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False

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Olympic was the codename for the invasion of the Japanese home islands

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True

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The Manhattan Project was the codename for the development of the atomic bomb

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true

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The Japanese surrender was signed by Hirohito onboard the battleship USS Missouri

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False

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The largest single loss of human life in naval history occurred when the Japanese battleship, Hirohito, was sunk near Okinawa

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False

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December 12, 1937, Japanese planes sank the US gunboat blank which was on the Yangtze River near Nanking

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Panay

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Japan's objective to control Southeast Asia's raw materials became known as

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Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

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The Japanese admiral who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor was

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Yamamoto Isoroku

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Refers to the Japanese Emperor's divine origin

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Tenno

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Led a successful air attack on Tokyo using B-25s launched from the US aircraft carrier Hornet

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Jimmy Doolittle

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The turning point of the Pacific War came during the victory of the US at the Battle of

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Midway

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The US admiral commanding the Pacific fleet

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Chester Nimitz

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The general who commanded the army forces for the US in the Pacific

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Douglas MacArthur

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Japanese suicide planes

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Kamikaze

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The ancient Japanese capital city of blank was spared from US bombing attacks

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Kyoto

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The base for the postwar system was to be the framework established in 1944

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Bretton Woods

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President Truman was referring to blank when he used the terms Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat, Five Star

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Douglas MacArthur

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Joseph Grew, William Castle, Joseph Ballentine, and Eugene Doorman made up the core of the group known as

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American Council on Japan or the Japan Lobby

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MacArthur's senior advisor and Detroit banker who was brought in to jump-start the Keenan-Draper economic plan

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Joseph M. Dodge

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The Prime Minister of Japan during the occupation was

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Yoshida Shigeru

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After the war, seven of the Japanese Class A war criminals were executed by hanging

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True

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Prior to the war, only Japanese women could be convicted of adultery

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True

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In early 1947, SCAP ordered the breakup of the most powerful zaibatsu, including Mitsui and Mitsubishi

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True

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Truman's successor was Richard M. Nixon

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False

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US involvement in Vietnam actually began in the early 1950s in support of the French

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True

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Kishi Nobusuke was labeled a Class A war criminal and hung for his crimes

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False

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Kishi's younger brother, Sato Eisaku, was a future Prime Minister

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True

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The core of the US/Japan relationship is the Security Treaty

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True

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The Battle Act passed by Congress in 1951 cut off aid to any nations trading with Communists

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True

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The Republic of China refers to mainland China

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False

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The blank Establishment Law of 1946 redistributed 4 million acres of land

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Owner-Farmer

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One of the few female members of SCAP who spoke Japanese and led the fight for women's right

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Beate Gordon

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Article of the new constitution renounced war as a sovereign right of the nation

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Article 9

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METI stands for

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Ministry of Economic Trade and Industry

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SCAP stands for

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Supreme Commander of Allied Powers

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The Japanese movie monster replaying the US bombings of Japanese cities was

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Gojira

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The Columbia professor and industrial management guru who gained a great following in Japan was

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W. Edward Deming

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SEATO stands for

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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

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After the occupation of Japan, the overriding fear of blank shaped US policy in Asia

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Communism

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The Federation of Students Self-Government Associations is known in Japanese as

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Zengakuren

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