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Japan Study Stack
33 vocabulary words about Japan and WW2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Japanese Feudalism | Social structure of Medieval Japan, military leaders are shoguns, daimyos are lords/landowners, military obligation for land |
| Samurai Culture (Military) | Samurai trained in things such as martial arts and other stuff in order for them to serve their daimyos |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | A period of peace purchased through strict rule |
| Meji Restoration | Restored emperor power to power, who push Japan to become a powerful western-style nation |
| Second Sino-Japanese War | Began after the marco polo bridge incident and resulted in 20 million Chinese dead |
| Manchuria and the Manchukuo Dynasty | A puppet government that ruled Manchuria for the Japanese |
| Tripartite Pact and Axis Powers | Tightened bonds between Germany, Japan, and Italy |
| Hideki Tojo | Found guilty for commiting war crimes and led the attacks on Pearl Harbor |
| Doolittle Raids | Bombing raids on 4 Japanese cities. |
| Battle of Okinawa | The last battle before the planned invasion of the Japanese Islands |
| Manhattan Project | Developed the atomic bombing on Japan and happened after Pearl Harbor |
| Philippines Campaign | Started in 1942 when the Japanese overran the islands and ended in 1945 with their liberation |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | The location of the "Bloodiest Battle" in the Pacific and was an island controlled by the Japanese |
| Samurai Culture (Mental) | Focused on self-control and strict discipline |
| Heian Period | Golden age of cultural achievements |
| Westernization of Japan | Emperor was responsible for the creation of railroads, telegraphs, guns, and cannons |
| Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki | The second use of an atomic weapon by the US killing 80000 people |
| Bushido Code | Unwriten rules that guided samurai life and death, later strictly enforced and guided how samurai's should act |
| Nara Period | Government and religion influenced by China |
| Kamikaze | A plane that had bombs in it that would be directed by Japanese suicide bombers inside of the plane that once it hit the ground they would explode the bombs |
| Battle of Midway | A loss for the Japanese navy, with 4 aircraft carriers sunk3-7 of June, 1942 |
| Pearl Harbor | 2403 Americans killed by the Japanese navy by a bomb 7 December, 1941 |
| Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima | The first use of an atomic weapon in a war, 6 August, 1945 |
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tjacobsen
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