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December 7th, 1941
Japan attacks U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii
A Day that will live in infamy |
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| In Feudal Japan, a supreme military commander who ruled in the name of the emperor |
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| A person who ruled a group of people |
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| He wanted to Japan back to the ways in was in olden times |
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| type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories |
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| attacked the U.S. fleet during Pearl Harbor |
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1942 - American forced defeated Japanese forces in central Pacific
turning point in the war |
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| Commander of the allied (friends) forces in the pacific |
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| Allied troops drove Japanese forces from the Pacific island of Guadalcanal |
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| warriors/feudal lords who commanded a private army of samurai |
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World War II
Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them |
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| highly refined court society - gentlemen & ladies of the court (noble families) filled their days with elaborate rituals & artistic pursuits |
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| strict code of behavior followed by samurai warriors in Japan |
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| Japan took advantage of China's weakening situation (fighting with each other) - Japan had control of a large part of China by 1938 |
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Restoring a centralized government
Rule of law overcame the rule of the sword |
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| Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of 5, 7, & 5 syllables |
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Tokugawa shoguns sealed Japan's borders
Instituted a "closed door policy" |
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| treaties in which China was forced to concede many of its territorial and sovereignty rights. They were negotiated during the 19th and early 20th centuries between China and foreign imperialist powers, especially Great Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan |
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| Attaining/Achieving enlightenment through meditation |
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| Naval officer - negotiated with Japan to open their ports to allow American ships in for trading |
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| Lead their lives according to the ethic code of Bushido |
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