Question | Answer |
occupied China in the 1930s and the mid 1940s | Japan |
Ancient Japanese warriors were called | samurai |
a period in Japan when the emperor regained power and Japan opened its doors | The Meiji Restoration |
two Japanese cities destroyed when the USA dropped atomic bombs on them at the end of World War II | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Student demonstrators were killed in 1989 at ? | Tiananmen Square |
the Chinese leader who brought economic reform to China in 1978 | Deng Xiaoping |
fought from 1950-1953 between a communist country and a democratic country in East Asia | Korean War |
Most Chinese people belong to the | Han ethnic group |
an archipelago and has a chain of more than 3000 islands | Japan |
an exchange of goods for other goods without the use of money | Bartering |
Instead of an alphabet that uses sounds, the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese language uses ? | characters that represent words |
the type of Buddhism most common in Japan | Zen |
The two main religions in Japan | Buddhism and Shinto |
Japanese concept of putting others first is known as | on |
in 1900 was put down by a combination of foreign forces | The Boxer Rebellion |
the leader who led the Chinese Communist party to victory in 1949 | Mao Zedong |
defeated China in the Opium Wars | The British |
The highly educated Chinese landowners who could pass the civil service exam were called the | scholar-gentry |
The Rites of Zhoe stated that | the Zhoe ruled because they possessed the Mandate of Heaven |
Government by a small privileged class is called | aristocracy |
Confucius taught two ways to be in harmony with the Dao | duty and humanity |
Until 1911, a key component of the Chinese political system was | state Confucianism and civil service examination |
Because of the call for reform following the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao launched a movement called the | Cultural Revolution |
After its defeat in 1949, who ruled Taiwan? | Chinese Nationalist Party |
During World War II, Japan occupied | China |
During World War II, Japan attacked the USA at | Pearl Harbor |