2. King of Cambodia who faced pressure from Siam & Vietnam sought protection from France.

3. Who led the Chinese Communists in resisting Japanese invasion (1937-1945)

4. Who  founded the Vietnamese Communist Party (1930) and led the fight for independence.

5. Who led Nationalist China in the fight against Japanese invasion.

• * Kuomintang

6. * A plan created by Imperial Japan during World War II.

• * Japan claimed it wanted to created a united Asia free from Western colonial powers.

• * Officially, it was supposed to be a partnership of Asian countries sharing prosperity and resources.

• * THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF THE PHILIPPINES

• 7. * On the same day, Japan also attacked the Philippines, Guam, and other Pacific islands spreading war across Asia and the Pacific.

• * It bombed Manila, Clark Air Base, and Davao. This began the Japanese invasion of the Philippines only one day after Pearl Harbor.

8. Who is the military government headed by shogun?

9. * Both China and Japan wanted control and influence over Korea, which was then a tributary state of China.

• * Tension grew when both sent troops to Korea during local uprisings to Joseon Dynasty and Tonghak Movement.

• * The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) began.

*Japan defeted China, proving its new strength.

10.  * CAPTIVATING GUIDE TO MILITARY CONFLICT THAT BEGAN BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN. INCLUDING EVENTS SUCH AS THE JAPANESE INVASIONS OF MANCHURIA AND NANJING MASSACRE.

11. Date of OPEN CITY.

12. Date of FALL OF BATAAN (April 9, 1942)

13. It fell to the Japanese Imperial Forces. The Battle of Corregidor, fought May 5-6, 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines during World War II. The Fil-U.S. Army recaptured the island in 1945.

14. * Filipino guerilla group formed to fight against the Japanese during World War II.

• * made up mostly of farmers and peasants from Central Luzon esp. Pampanga, Tarlac, and Nueva Ecija.

• * Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945 after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• * The Philippines was once again under American control, but the U.S. honored its promise to grant independence after the war.

15. The “Rice Bowl of Asia.”

16. The Dobama Asiayone (“We Burmans Association”) in the 1930s popularized the slogan. What is this slogan?

17. * British defeated Burma; ceded Assam, Manipur, Arakan, and Tenasserim.

18. * Lower Burma (including Rangoon) annexed by the British.

19. * Complete annexation; King Thibaw deposed; Burma fully integrated into British India.

20. Figurehead with no real power.

21.  Military leader who ruled Japan.

22. * US (1853) sent four large warships led by Commodore Matthew Perry to Edo insisting Japan to open to Western Trade.

n Kanagawa Convention

• * When Western countries forced Japan to open its ports (like the U.S. in 1853), many Japanese leaders realized Japan needed to modernize to avoid being colonized.

• * In 1868, the last shogun was removed, and Emperor Meiji took back power.

23. * After _____, Vietnam declared independence in 1945, ending French rule after the First Indochina War (1954).

24. * China gave Japan Taiwan and recognized Korea’s independence (which later allowed Japan to control it).

25. * Japan wanted oil, rubber, and other natural resources.

• * The Japanese forced Indonesians to work in factories and plantations.

• * Dutch colonial rulers were removed, some Indonesians saw Japan as a liberator at first, hoping for independence.

• * However, Japan was harsh many suffered from forced labor and starvation.  

• * Indonesia declared independence in 1945, inspired partly by anti-Japanese and anti-colonial resistance.