Pgs. 143-151 Quiz Flashcards
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How did he plan to thwart U.S. involvement?
Use the tripartite pact of September 1940 with Germany and Italy to keep U.S. at peace and break off its assistance to China and the British empire
What did Matsuoka Yosuke want for Japan?
Establish itself as master of Asia and first modern nonwhite Great Power
How did Matsuoka plan to manipulate and take advantage of the European war?
He wanted to use economic weakness due to war to help Japan gain economic power, and he understood America’s fear of a European war and planned to exploit this fear
The emperor did this at the beginning of the Meiji restoration in 1867-68
He was re-empowered by the four clans that toppled the Tokugawa Shonugate and pledged himself to restore Japanese self respect
In how many years was Japan transformed from backward to industrialized ?
35 years
Even though the modernized Japanese army looked Europeanized, what was the difference?
Soul of the armed forces remained rooted in the samurai tradition of Japanese feudalism
What did Japan use or exploit to defeat its Asian rival, China?
Modern warships (1894-95)
In 1904-1905…
Japan got involved in Russia’s civil war because they wanted to g whatever they could out of the remains. They defeated the Russians, but U.S. got involved, and Teddy Roosevelt ended this war.
What did the settlement for Manchuria lead to?
Acute Japanese interest in the Russian revolution of 1917 and the fate of Siberia and Russia’s maritime province
How many soldiers did the Japanese send into Russia?
72,000
What did Western political pressure cause Japan to do?
Peace negations in 1919 forced the Japanese to leave Siberia in 1922
What did Japan do in 1921 to prove they were a grown up country now?
Went to Washington D.C. And agreed to three treaties to stabilize Asia
What was the five five three agreement?
For every 5 battleships Britain, France, or Italy had, Japan could only have three
