WorksheetsPRE WWII Facism, Italy, and Pre-Modern Japan
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 50mins
The policy of remaining separate from the political and economic affairs of other countries.
Isolationism
Rationalism
Mercantilism
Mercenary
The perosn who controled the military in feudal Japan. was called the ___________
Shogun
Sect
Mercantilism
Mercenary
The emperor of Japan and the Queen of England are examples of
All powerful rulers
Figureheads
Heads of State
Leaders of government
Who held the real political power in Japan
Emperor
Daimyo
Shoguns
Samurai
Warriors hired by landowners in Japan to protect their property were called
Ninjas
Daimyo
Samurai
Mongol Hordes
The code of the Samurai is called
The Ten Commandments
Bushido
Righteous Path of the Warrior
What ocean is Japan located in
Atlantic
Indian
Mediterranean
Pacific
In feudal Japan, what was a warrior called?
Shinto
Shogun
Bushido
Samurai
Which title means "supreme general of the emperor's army"?
Shogun
Samurai
Daimyo
Bushido
Who ruled Japan when Kublai Khan attempted two naval invasions?
Prince Shotoku
the Kamakura shogun
the daimyo
the samurai
What does the word 'kamikaze' mean?
Divine wind
Divine right
Why were merchants on the bottom of the Japanese social hierarchy?
They did not produce anything on their own.
They only worked with the Samurai.
Which is the term that describes the military government of Japan?
Kamikaze
Shogunate
Who arrived in 1853 on behalf of the U.S. government, forcing Japan to enter into trade with the United States?
Portuguese traders
Admiral Perry
The act of Seppuku was performed either as an act of loyalty to a fallen daimyo, or ...
To make a samurai invisible in battle.
To restore a samurai's lost honor.
Samurai without masters or jobs and who often ignored the Bushido code were called
The Shogun
The Ronin
The Daimyo
The Rebels
How did King Victor Emmanuel respond to the March on Rome?
Gave Mussolini the job of Prime Minister
Ran away from Italy
Sent the army to attack the Blackshirts
Called for a civil war to be fought
How did the blackshirts restore law and order?
Spoke to the offenders
Used violence to stop striking workers and attacked communists
Ran for political office to create new laws
Who were Mussolini's early supporters?
Veterans of World War I
Doctors and lawyers
Teachers
Peasants and workers
Which accurately describes the March on Rome?
Mussolini and the National Fascist Party marched on Rome, and King Victor Emmanuel III invited Mussolini to discuss his demands
Communists and Socialists declared an ill-prepared general strike, which was stopped easily by fascists and government troops
Civilians outraged by abolition of universal suffrage marched on Rome to take back their kingdom from Mussolini
A parade held in Mussolini's honor was marched all the way to Rome
The Lateran Accord was a treaty signed by Mussoliini with
the Ethiopians
Hitler
the Roman Catholic Church
with Japan
Who founded Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Joseph Stalin
Which answer below was not responsible for the rise of fascist dictators in the 1930's?
They were elected into their leadership positions
Failing economies with high unemployment caused people to want a leader that could get things done.
Charismatic leaders like Hitler and Mussolini were good at stirring people into frenzies.
New weak democracies were slow moving and incapable of overcoming obstackes
Why was the United States interested in Japan
Japan had plentiful quantities of whale oil and coal.
Japan was considered a stepping point into Russia
The U.S. wanted to make Japan a territory.
They wanted to setup goldmines throughout the island
Which of the following is a characteristic of fascism
Free and fair elections
Total control of the media and culture
Small businesses based on the cottage industry
A bicameral legislative system
What is the relationship of the individual to the in a fascist society?
The individual limits the power of the state
The indivdual has inalienable rights that the state must protect.
The individual is only important when his or her interests match those of the state
The state serves the indivdual
Why did the Italian Army invade Ethiopia
To settle an old score between the emporer of Ethiopia and Mussolini.
Ethipoia had large gold mines and Mussolini wanted them.
Mussolini wanted to reunite the large Italian speaking population in Ethiopia with the mother country
It was one piece of Mussolini's plan to recreate the Roman Empire
True or False, control of the military is essential to a fascist dictator.
True
False
What did the Japanese say saved them from 2 different Mongol invasions in the 1200s?
Superior sword and cannon construction.
The wind deity Futen sent Typhoons to destroy the Mongol fleet
The Mongol soldiers saw the mighty Samurai and fled in terror.
The first time a plague killed the Mongols, the second time a great tsunami sank the fleet
Why did the Japanese agree to trade with the United States?
The U.S. had large quantities of iron that Japan needed to forge swords.
The Shogun was corrupt and wanted to profit from trade with the U.S.
Perry and his men captured the shogun and held him until the daimyo signed the agreement
Commodore Perry's forces had more advanced and mpre powerful ships and weapons
