Quiz 9

How can we identify whether a country experienced early industrial growth or late industrial growth?

• By how long it took the country to industrialize

• By the type of industralization

• Using the Industrial Revolution as a reference

• By how many train lines the country built

After the end of the Second World War, Mexico and Japan both entered a second face in their industralization, wrongly called "economic miracles". What allowed for this to happen?

• Japan and Mexico re-established their diplomatic and commercial relations with each other, incentivizing commerce between them

• The economies of the countries involved in the war had centered their production on the war, leaving an important vacant for countries to produce everything else

• The United States lended money to Japan and to Mexico to revitalize their economies

• Both Japan and Mexico had fertile lands and where able to produce a lot of food produse to export to the rest of the world

After World War 2 a lot of things changed in Japan, however, the role of private enterprises continued to be essential. What do we call the zaibatsu now?

• Keiretsu

• kutsushita

• kamakura

• koibito

In the text "The atomic bomb - voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki" the author identifies 2 events that obliterated the distinction between combatant and noncombatant within a wartime context. The events were...

• 1) The separation of families due to the conflict

  2) Compulsory conscription

• 1) The concentration camps

  2) The use of land mines

• 1) The kamikaze attacks by the Japanese airforce

  2) The nuclear bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• 1) The Japanese onslaught against the peoples of China and

  Southeast Asia

  2)The use of air strikes by the major powers to terrorize and

  destroy cities and their populations

The firebombing of Japanese cities was suggested as a possibility even before the Pearl Harbour attack, however it was not carried out until 1944.

• True

• False

What were the 4 mutually reinforcing factors in the decision of the U.S to drop the atomic bombs in Japan?

• 1) Wartime goals that required Japan's unconditional surrender

  2) The belief that the behavior of Japanese forces, nullified any humanitarian consideration for the Japanese people

  3) The conviction that the atomic bomb would save the lives of numerous American soldiers

  4) Establish American primacy and to check the Soviet advance

• 1) To humiliate Japan

  2) To ensure Japan would never be a military power again

  3) To kill all of the Japanese forces

  4) To make sure Japan wouldn't become communist

• 1) The conviction that the atomic bomb would save the lives of numerous American soldiers

  2) To make sure Japan wouldn't become communist

  3) Wartime goals that required Japan's unconditional surrender

  4) To humiliate Japan

• 1) Establish American primacy and to check the Soviet advance

  2) To kill all of the Japanese forces

  3) The belief that the behavior of Japanese forces, nullified any humanitarian consideration for the Japanese people

  4) To ensure Japan would never be a military power again

As an emerging industrial power, Japan needed access to raw materials for its development, this meant that...

• The more it industrialized the more products it had to trade to other countries

• It had the weapons necessary to invade other countries

• The more it industrialized, the more dependent it became of foreign markets and sources of raw materials, incentivizing its drive to expand its empire

• It became competitive with other industrial powers

What happened the 25 of july of 1894?

• Japan invaded and occupied the Korean peninsula

• Japan went to war with China (the first Sino-Japanese War)

• Japan went to war with Russia

• Japan went to war with China (the second Sino-Japanese War)

What is the name of the "wealth clans" of Korea, family-owned conglomerates that colabortaed with the Japanese and became the nucleus of a post-Japanese South Korean state?

• Chaebols

• Zaibatsu

• Keirestu

• leiseu

EXTRA POINT: Okonomiyaki is a typical japanese dish, however there are 2 main variation of the dish, it is a neverending discussion of which one is better. The first one is the okonomiyaki from 1).... and the second one is the okonomiyaki from 2).... The difference is that the second one has noodles.

• 1) Chiba

  2) Miyagi

• 1) Nagano

  2) Okayama

• 1) Hokkaido

  2) Okinawa

• 1) Osaka

  2) Hiroshima