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Review for quiz on Japanese history

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Japanese religion which worships forces of nature and ancestors   Shinto  
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Symbolize the gods Izanami and Izanagi, the kami who founded Japan   Wedded Rocks  
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Separates the sacred from the every day world in Japan   Torii Gate  
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Divine Spirits which the Japanese believe inhabit the forces of nature   Kami  
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Japanese sun goddess   Amaterasu  
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Japan's first human emperor @ 660 BCE   Jimmu  
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Flower which is the crest for the Japanese imperial (royal) family   Chrysanthemum  
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Political system where power is shared   Feudalism  
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Military and political ruler of feudal Japan. Title means great "barbarian subduing general"   Shogun  
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Land owning nobility in feudal Japan   Daimyo  
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Members of Japan's warrior class during the feudal period   Samurai  
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Code of behavior followed by samurai warrior. It's name means "way of the warrior"   Bushido  
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Referred to as the "soul of the samurai"   Two swords - daisho  
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Long sword (24+ inches) carried by samurai warriors   Katana  
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Short sword (12-24 inches) carried by samurai warriors   Wakizashi  
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Ritual suicide committed by many samurai   Seppuku  
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Japan's name for itself   Nippon meaning land of the rising sun  
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St. Francis Xavier   missionary who introduced Christianity to Japan  
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Matthew Perry   American naval officer who opened Japan to the USA for trade and diplomatic relations in the 1850's  
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Gunboat Diplomacy   term used to describe method used by Matthew Perry to open Japan - implied threats  
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Black ships   name Japanese gave to Perry's ships because of the black smoke from steam engines  
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Meiji Restoration 1868-1912   period when the emperor was restored to power and Japan began to modernize and westernize  
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Imperialism   the use of force to take over weaker nations  
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Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905   war between Russia and Japan for control of Korea  
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Treaty of Portsmouth   ended Russo Japanese War  
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Sakhalin Island   split between Russia and Japan after the Russo-Japanese War  
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Tripartite Pact   agreement among the axis powers - Japan, Germany, and Italy  
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Hideki Tojo   Japan's prime minister who decided on the attack of Pearl Harbor  
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Isoruku Yamamoto   Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack  
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December 7, 1941   date of the attack on Pearl Harbor  
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USS Arizona   American warship sunk at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese  
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Admiral Kimmel   officer in charge of the base at Pearl Harbor who was relieved of his command shortly after the attack  
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Franklin Roosevelt   US President at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack; he asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan  
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Hirohito   emperor of Japan during WWII  
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Battle of the Coral Sea   Naval battle in May 1942 where the US stopped Japan's movement towards Australia  
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Battle of Midway   decisive US naval victory in June 1942; US success was due in part to cracking the Japanese code  
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Battle of Iwo Jima   major battle of WWII; first battle fought on Japanese soil  
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Operation Downfall   US plan to invade the main Japanese islands planned for the fall of 1945 and spring of 1946  
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Manhattan Project   project to develop the atomic bomb  
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J. Robert Oppenheimer   scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project  
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Enola Gay   plane which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima  
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General Douglas MacArthur   US general in charge of the post-WWII occupation of Japan  
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