Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
South China in the early 19th Cantury was inundated with opium from which country?
|
Great Britain
|
|
|
The qing governments efforts to end the opium trade in the 1830's resulted in a war with?
|
Britain
|
|
|
The leader of the Taiping Rebellion, considered himself to be on a missio0n from God. He believed he was?
|
God's younger son
|
|
|
The most powerful political figure in China after 1860 was?
|
The Empress Dowager
|
|
|
The Boxer Rebellion was?
|
An anti-foreign uprising
|
|
|
What movement helped create Chinese Nationalism?
|
May 4th Movement
|
|
|
The leader of the KMT after the death of Sun Yatsen was?
|
Chaing Kai-Shek
|
|
|
The CCP's Long March occured in what year?
|
March 1934
|
|
|
Japan was reopened to the outside world in the 1850s by which country?
|
The United States
|
|
|
The Meiji Reforms were not accepted by who?
|
The Samurai's
|
|
|
The process in Japan of the government creating & devloping business and then selling the at bargain rates is called?
|
Zaibatsu
|
|
|
Japan became a world power in 1905 with the defeat of?
|
Russia
|
|
|
The Japanese attacked Peal Haobor in December 1941 because?
|
The US was the one country that could stop the Japanese from taking over the Asia & the Pacific.
|
|
|
In WWII there were two major theaters. What were they?
|
The European Theater
The Pacific Theater |
|
|
The turning point against the germaens cime in 1943 at the battle of?
|
Stalingrad
|
|
|
D-Day, the British/American invasion of europe, occurred in?
|
June of 1944
|
|
|
In June of 1942, the Americans stopped the Japanese navy and insured an American victory in the Pacific at the battle of?
|
The Coral Sea
|
|
|
to defend their homeland, the Japanese military used suicide planes called?
|
Kamikazes
|
|
|
What two cites had the only two nuclar devices ever used dropped on them?
|
Hiroshima
Nagasaki |
|
|
What was the German "blitzkrieg"?
|
Lightening War
|
