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Questions:

1. What incident led to the annexation of the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to Japan in 1879?

2. How did the incident between Japanese police and Chinese sailors in Nagasaki in 1886 lead to tensions with China?

3. What was the reason behind the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895? How did the war turn out for both sides?

4. What were the four terms imposed by Japan onto China with the "peace" Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895?

5. What was a positive outcome for Japan as a result of the First Sino-Japanese War?

6. How did the Triple Intervention of 1896 lead to tension with Russia?

7. Why was Japan's defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 considered so significant? What did Japan gain from its victory?

8. What were Japan's first two colonies, and what were some of Japan's policies in these colonies?

9. Describe Japan's participation in World War 1 from 1914-1918. What did Japan gain as a result from its participation in the war?

10. What were the Twenty-One Demands imposed by the Japanese government onto China in 1915?

11. What were Japan's requests at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and how did the Western powers respond to them?

12. What led to the Rice Riots of 1918?

13. How did the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 impact the reconstruction of Tokyo and modern, popular culture during the Taisho Period?

14. Who were the two great writers of the late Meiji and Taisho Periods?

15. Describe the Taisho Democracy of the 1920s and how Japan became more democratic as a result.

16. What was the Peace Preservation Law of 1924? Why did communism not become so widespread in Japan?

17. Describe Pan-Asianism - what was Japan's motivation behind expanding into other Asian countries?

18. What was Manchuria (Manchukuo) utilized for?

19. How did the military begin to assert itself into Japanese politics in the 1930s?

20. Was the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 successful for the Japanese? Why or why not?

21. Describe the Tripartite Pact and how it facilitated Japan's attack on the European colonies in Asia.

22. What were two factors that led up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

23. What are some of the other areas Japan conquered in the months after Pearl Harbor?

24. During World War II, what methods did the United States use (both within the main Japanese islands and on the battlefield) to try and force Japan to surrender?

25. How did the Japanese prepare their people for the invasion of the Japanese islands by the United States?