US Occupation of Japan

Where in Japan where the Atomic Bombs dropped? Choose the correct spots on the map

The Emperor's radio broad cast, announcing surrender, has been interpreted by many as a "​ (a)   ," which many politicians and businesspeople feared might even lead to a ​ (b)  

• rebirth
• revolution
• civil war
• total defeat
• trick
• coup

The American General who would run the operations of the occupied governance was:

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Douglas MacArthur

• Chester W. Nimitz

• Omar Bradley

What does this picture depict?

• Hearing the gunshots of nearby Gangster rivalries

• Rush for travel to countryside in search for food

• Fleeing the scenes of hundreds of bonfires flaring across Tokyo

The American Agenda was to ​​ (a)   and ​ (b)  

• Demilitarize
• Democratize
• Colonize
• Imperalize
• Remilitarize

Order the significance: arena of retribution, the place where reparations where to be decided and purging of military & political positions

• International Military Tribunal for the Far East in May 1946 to November 1948

• Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945)

• SCAP: The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers 1945-1952

• Yalta Conference (Feb 1945)

Match the following reforms and thematic connection

• Emperor as Symbol of Unity & State

• Intellectual pursuit of new ideas and philosophy

• Women's right to vote

• Postwar Constitution

• Defining democracy with socialist readings

• First post war general election for House of Representatives

• Lessons of peace and democracy

• Rewriting Wartime Textbooks

• Redistribution of social and economic power across rural Japan

• Land Reform

With the existence of the Emperor as the symbol of the state and unity of people, some have continued to label Japan's democratization as an "BLANK democracy"

(a)  

The notion that land reform was a "transwar" issue, meaning that is been a issue of development from the 1920s [prewar], 1930s [wartime], and late 1940s [postwar] rings the bell of this KEY CONCEPT: ​ (a)  

• Continuity
• Change
• Perspective
• Cauality
• Consequence
• Significance

Gordon writes, "The Americans came to Japan convinced that the BLANK bore major responsibility for expansionism and the war

• Imperial Way Faction

• Black Dragon Society

• Control Faction

• Zaibatsu