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Japan Stuff
JAPAN STUFF
Term | Definition |
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Samurai Culture (Mental) | Samurai took time to train and get better. They also meditated. |
Battle of Okinawa | A battle over the island Okinawa because they wanted it as an air force base. |
Westernization of Japan | Western countries (US and Europe) had a few battles with Japan to get them to trade, bombed the Tokyo Harbor and made a treaty to get them to trade |
Japanese Feudalism | A feudalistic system implemented in Japan featuring many classes |
The Battle of Iwo Jima | A bunch of Americans had a battle because they wanted it also for an airfield and to give them a foothold in the Pacific war |
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki | Harry Truman told Paul TIbbits to drop a second atomic bomb on Japan |
WWII Tripartite Pact | To form an alliance Germany, Italy, and Japan made this pact. |
Samurai Culture | Samurais (Mercenaries) would train and be hired by rich landowners to protect them |
Manchuria Dynasty | Japan took part of China and installed Puyi as an emperor for a puppet government put in place there |
Natural Resources | Any resource that comes from nature |
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima | The first place in Japan to get an atomic bomb dropped on them |
Pearl Harbor | Japan attacked the US Airforce base in Hawaii know as Pearl Harbor, and lead to the US getting involved with WWII |
Doolittle Raids | James Doolittle started making the B25 Flying Fortress popular for bombing runs on Japan |
Heian Period | When emperor Kanumu changed the capital from Nara to Hein-Kyo |
Tokugawa Shogunate | A military government installed in Japan |
Nara Period | Was very focus on copying China and Agriculture |
Manhattan Project | The project that developed the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and later helped develop the plutonium bombs |
Meiji Restoration | When Japan went from Feudal to Imperial Japan |