Honors History of East Asia

 

The Road to War and WWII in East Asia

 

Be able to answer the following:

  1. Describe the Nanking Decade (1927-1937). What reforms did Chiang Kai-shek enact? What were the Communists doing at this time?
  2. Describe the 3 periods of Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
  3. Why did democracy fail in Japan in the 1920’s and 30’s? Describe the rise of the militarists in Japan.

 

Be able to identify the following terms:

  1. Lu Xun
  2. Diary of a Madman
  3. Charlie Soong
  4. Republican Revolution (1911)
  5. The Republic of China
  6. Sun Yat-sen
  7. 3 Principles of the People
  8. Guomindang
  9. The Nationalist Symbol
  10. Yuan Shikai
  11. Era of Warlord Rule
  12. May 4th Movement
  13. Soong Qingling
  14. Chiang Kai-shek
  15. Soong Meiling
  16. Whompoa Military Academy
  17. The first United Front
  18. The CCP
  19. The hammer and sickle
  20. Comintern
  21. Mao Zedong
  22. The Northern Expedition
  23. The Shanghai Purge
  24. The Nanking Decade
  25. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
  26. The New Life Movement
  27. “Barrel of a Gun”
  28. The Long March
  29. The Zunyi Conference
  30. Guerilla warfare
  31. Sparrow warfare
  32. Tunnel warfare
  33. Yanan
  34. Manchukuo (1932)
  35. Boycott
  36. The bombing of Shanghai (1932)
  37. Pu-yi
  38. Zhang Zuolin
  39. Zhang Zueliang
  40. The Xian Incident
  41. The second United Front
  42. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (July 7, 1937)
  43. Japanese Occupation of Korea
  44. March 1st Movement (1919)
  45. “Lost Names”
  46. Hanbok
  47. Unlucky #4
  48. Comfort Women
  49. Syngman Rhee (Yi Sung-man)
  50. Kim Il-sung
  51. Soseki Natsume
  52. I am a Cat
  53. Treaty of Shimonoseki
  54. Taiwan
  55. Treaty of Portsmouth
  56. Sakhalin Island
  57. Liaotung
  58. Port Arthur
  59. Japanese Protectorate (1905)
  60. Japan Annexes Korea (1910)
  61. The Treaty of Versailles
  62. Shandong
  63. Qingdao
  64. Racial equality clause
  65. The Mukden Incident
  66. The China Incident
  67. The Taisho Emperor (1912-1926)
  68. Taisho Democracy
  69. The Gentleman’s Agreement (1908)
  70. Washington Naval Conference (1921-2) 5:5:3
  71. The Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)
  72. Furappasu
  73. The Exclusion Act (1924)
  74. The Great Depression
  75. American tariff policy
  76. Unit 731
  77. Dr. Ishii
  78. The Rape of Nanking
  79. The Textbook Debate
  80. Chongking
  81. Burma Road
  82. The Hump
  83. “Giving up space to save time”
  84. Conscription
  85. Hiroshima
  86. Nagasaki
  87. Hirohito (The Showa Emperor)
  88. The Grave of the Fireflies
  89. Seita
  90. Setsuko
  91. Kobe
  92. The fall of Singapore
  93. Embargo
  94. Kamikaze
  95. Saipan
  96. The Battle of the Coral Sea
  97. The Battle of the Midway
  98. Okinawa
  99. When We Say “Hiroshima”
  100. August 6