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