Review for the Unit #3 Examination

This illustration most clearly shows the influence of which major change in Japanese society during the Meiji Restoration?

• feudalism

• militarism

• isolationism

• industrialization and modernization

Which of these contributed to the historical developments depicted in this map?

• The start of World War II

• Industrialization in Japan

• Chinese Communist Revolution

• Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

. . .The importation of Western civilization opened a gaping chasm between town and country, between educated and uneducated, between connected and unconnected, and above all between the rich and poor. Nowhere were Japan’s growing pains felt more sorely than in the countryside, where the weight of Meiji reforms crushed many farmers, who enjoyed few of the fruits of Japan’s nineteenth-century enlightenment. In large part, the situation persisted until the abolishment of the tenancy system and the dramatic reforms initiated during the US occupation. . . .

The Japanese social and economic changes of the late 19th century described in the passage were a result of ….

• isolationist policies

• rapid industrialization

• The Russo-Japanese War

• Marxist labor reforms

Identify a policy most closely associated with the historical developments depicted in this map.

• pacifism

• zionism

• imperialism

• communism

The growth of Japan between 1931 and 1941 shown on this map most closely parallel the actions of which country during approximately the same time period?

• Great Britain

• China

• Germany

• France

 . . From the mound, Mr. Tanimoto saw an astonishing panorama. Not just a patch of Koi, as he had expected, but as much of Hiroshima as he could see through the clouded air was giving off a thick, dreadful miasma [fog]. Clumps of smoke, near and far, had begun to push up through the general dust. He wondered how such extensive damage could have been dealt out of a silent sky; even a few planes, far up, would have been audible. Houses nearby were burning, and when huge drops of water the size of marbles began to fall, he half thought that they must be coming from the hoses of firemen fighting the blazes. (They were actually drops of condensed moisture falling from the turbulent tower of dust, heat, and fission fragments that had already risen miles into the sky above Hiroshima.). . . .

Which situation most directly led to the event described in this passage? 

• evacuation of Chinese Nationalist forces to Taiwan

• Japanese aggression in the Pacific

• Russian demands that the Allies establish a second front in Europe

• German rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

Which statement about the Weimar Republic before November 1933 is best supported by the information in the chart?

• Political representation of various groups was limited.

• Diverse political ideas were discouraged by the government.

• Many different political ideologies were represented in the Reichstag (German parliament).

  
  

• The Social Democrats continued to gain support throughout the period.

  
  

"It took the Big Four just five hours and twenty five minutes here in Munich today to dispel the clouds of war and come to an agreement over the partition of Czechoslovakia. There is to be no European war, after all. There is to be peace, and the price of that peace is, roughly, the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the Sudeten territory to Herr Hitler's Germany. The German Führer gets what he wanted, only he has to wait a little longer for it. Not much longer though — only ten days. . . ."

The policy that France, Britain, and Italy chose to follow at this meeting is known as ….

• appeasement

• self-determination

• liberation

• pacification

Which claim best represents a reason for the actions taken by British Prime Minister Chamberlain and Europe in this cartoon?

• 
  They wanted to appease Adolf Hitler to try to avoid war.

• 
  They refused to negotiate with Adolf Hitler.

• They wanted to make Germany stronger.

• They did not believe that Adolf Hitler was a threat to their security.

The significance of the events shown on this time line is that they represent....

• attempts to force empires to decolonize

• efforts of Manchuria and Czechoslovakia to maintain the balance of power

• The expansion of communist forces in Europe and Asia

• underlying causes of World War II