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27 Cards in this Set
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1600 |
-Battle of Sekigahara -Tokugawa Ieyasu wins control of Japan |
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1853 |
Matthew Perry arrives with the Black Ships |
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1858 |
Japan-US Treaty of Amity/Harris Treaty |
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1868 |
Meiji Restoration |
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1889 |
Meiji Constitution |
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1890 |
-First Diet is convened -Imperial Rescript on Education is issued |
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1895 |
Sino-Japanese War ends with the Treaty of Shimonoseki |
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1905 |
Russo-Japanese War ends with the Treaty of Portsmouth |
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1910 |
Japan annexes Korea |
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1915 |
Japan issues Twenty One Demands on China |
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1925 |
-Universal male suffrage -Peace Preservation Law |
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1926 |
Emperor Taisho dies and is replaced by Showa (Hirohito) |
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1931 |
Manchurian (China) Takeover |
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1937 |
-Japan's China War begins -Nanjing Massacre begins |
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1941 |
Pearl Harbor is bombed |
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1945 |
-Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -Japan surrenders -Occupation begins |
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1947 |
Japan's new constitution |
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1948 |
Reverse Course begins |
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1950 |
-Red Purge begins (till 1951) -Korean War begins, beginning of Japanese economic revival |
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1951 |
-Japan signs Mutual Security Treaty with the U.S. -San Francisco Treaty |
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1952 |
Occupation ends |
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1955 |
LDP Hegemony begins |
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1956 |
U.S. brokered Japan's membership in the U.N. (West and East Germanys did not gain U.N. membership until 1973) |
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1964 |
Tokyo Olympics |
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1973 |
Oil crisis |
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1979 |
Ezra Vogel publishes Japan as Number One |
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1989 |
-Hirohito dies -Economic bubble bursts |
