Chapter 32: Japan And Korea Is

Question 1

What is in archipelago?

Answer 1

Chain of islands

Question 2

What is the ring of fire?

Answer 2

A region of spectacular tech tonic activity along the rim of the Pacific ocean

Question 3

What are typhoons?

Answer 3

A typhoon is a tropical hurricane that forms over the Pacific ocean, often causing floods and landslides

Question 4

What does homogenous mean?

Answer 4

It means uniform. 99% of Japan’s people have ancestors who lived in Japan thousands of years ago

Question 5

What is selective borrowing?

Answer 5

Selective borrowing is:

Question 6

What is militarism?

Answer 6

The glorification of the military and a readiness for war. Military leaders encourage people to believe that your pans mission in the world was to free the Asian nations from Western imperialism

Question 7

What is a quota?

Answer 7

Affix quantity which limits the number of foreign-made goods sold in Japan

Question 8

What are tariffs?

Answer 8

Tariffs our taxes on imports that make foreign goods more costly than their domestic equivalents

Question 9

What is the demilitarized zone?

Answer 9

A strip of land between North and South Korea on which troops and weapons are not allowed

Question 10

What is proliferation?

Answer 10

Proliferation is the increasing number of atomic weapons around the world

Question 11

What are the four main islands of Japan?

Answer 11

Honshu - largest island and home to 80% of population
Shikoku
Kyushu
Hokkaido

Question 12

What is the largest island of Japan?

Answer 12

Honshu

Question 13

Describe the terrain of Japan

Answer 13

Japan has mountainous terrain. Only 13% of Japan’s land is arable, or able to grow crops

Question 14

Japan is made up of what?

Answer 14

An archipelago, or chain of islands

Question 15

Who experiences more earthquakes than any other country in the world??

Answer 15

Japan. More than 1500 earthquakes can be felt by people each year

Question 16

What are volcanoes beneficial to Japan?

Answer 16

Volcanoes warm underground water and create Hot Springs

Question 17

How is Japan created more farmland?

Answer 17

Japan has carved terraces into hillsides and drained marshes, swamps, and deltas

Question 18

What is the Japan current?

Answer 18

It flows north word from tropical waters, and warms the air. This leads to a strong growing season

Question 19

What is the oyashio current?

Answer 19

Flows southeastward cooling the air

Question 20

How was high population density affect Japan?

Answer 20

Landyn housing is expensive and many families live in high-rise apartments

Question 21

Describe Japanese ancestry

Answer 21

Most have a common heritage and shared ancestry or how much it is population. The only significant ethnic minority is Koreans

Question 22

Define Ainu:

Answer 22

Early inhabitants of northern Japan, excluded from society

Question 23

Define burakumin

Answer 23

Ethically Japanese, but social outcast. Descendants of burgers and leather tanners

Question 24

Describe the religion of Shintoism

Answer 24

Shintoism worship the forces of nature and the spirits of the dead ancestors. This religion no longer focus on daily life still a part of festivals and

Question 25

Which religion was started in Japan?

Answer 25

Shintoism

Question 26

Describe Buddhism

Answer 26

Majority of Japanese also practice Buddhist traditions People should seek spiritual enlightenment or knowledge by living selflessly and modestly Simple images of nature and art are influenced by Buddhism

Question 27

When was Dupin's first contact with The west?

Answer 27

In 1543 Portuguese trading ships arrived in Japan | Roman Catholic missionaries followed

Question 28

When did Japan shut its doors to the west?

Answer 28

At first Japan welcome foreigners, but in 1639 the government closed it's doors to the west

Question 29

Who forcibly reopen the Japan when he and his fleet sailed into the Japanese harbor in 1853?

Answer 29

Commodore Matthew see Perry was sent with a fleet of ships to Japan. He was sent to negotiate trade agreement. Later Japan was forced to sign trade agreements with others as well

Question 30

What does Meiji mean?

Answer 30

Enlightened rule

Question 31

What did the Meiji government do and when did they establish themselves?

Answer 31

In 1868 new government took control of Japan for revolution. The Meiji government determined to modernize and industrialize This. Lasted from 1868 to 1912

Question 32

What does Japanese Parliament call itself?

Answer 32

The Diet

Question 33

List three things needed to carry out the meiji revolution

Answer 33

1) reformers sent hundreds to US and Europe to learn western ways 2) The country became more democratic 3) legal reforms made all men equal before the law

Question 34

Before World War II how did Japan acquire natural resources?

Answer 34

They followed Western example and started conquering weaker nations

Question 35

When did Japan force Korea to become a part of Japan?

Answer 35

1910

Question 36

Who did Japan side with in World War I

Answer 36

The Allied powers

Question 37

What two places did Japan invaded in the 1930s?

Answer 37

1931 Japan invades Manchuria 1937 Japan invades China

Question 38

Who did Japan the side with in World War II?

Answer 38

Nazi Germany

Question 39

When did Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?

Answer 39

December 7, 1941

Question 40

When did World War II end for japan?

Answer 40

In 1945 the US dropped atomic bomb on heroshima and Nagasaki. Japan quickly surrendered

Question 41

Who was the first country to occupied Japan in her history?

Answer 41

The United States occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952

Question 42

What did Japan do with the raw materials she had to trade for she had to trade for

Answer 42

Took in wrong materials and change the finished goods for export Made switch to expensive high-quality goods such as cameras and electronic equipment

Question 43

List and describe the four reasons for economic success in Japan

Answer 43

Great natural resource has been educated workforce Attitude and cooperative skills of its workers Japan is now at center of active trade networks Government takes active role in business

Question 44

What three countries had invaded Korea in years past

Answer 44

Mongolia, China, and Japan

Question 45

What did the Koreans adapt from Chinese culture?

Answer 45

The Chinese writing system and Chinese words

Question 46

What are the two most common religions of the Koreans?

Answer 46

Buddhism and Christianity

Question 47

What is North Korea's a stance on religion?

Answer 47

Ethey discourage all religion

Question 48

What happened to the Korean Peninsula at the end of World War II?

Answer 48

The Soviet Union was in charge of the north and the United States was in charge of the south

Question 49

How did the Korean War start?

Answer 49

North Korea launched a surprise attack on South Korea The objective was to unite the country under single rule of communism

Question 50

Who fought in the Korean War with the South Koreans?

Answer 50

United Nations forces from 15 different countries came to help South Korea 98% were US troops

Question 51

How many countries helped in the Korean War

Answer 51

15

Question 52

Where is the boundary established between North and South Korea?

Answer 52

At the 38th parallel

Question 53

What is the capital of North Korea?

Answer 53

Pyongyang

Question 54

What is the climate of North Korea?e

Answer 54

Short cool summers and bitterly cold winters

Question 55

What are the natural resources of North Korea?

Answer 55

Cole, iron ore, copper, lead, tungsten, and zinc

Question 56

Capital of South Korea

Answer 56

Seoul

Question 57

Almost a quarter of South Korean population is located where?

Answer 57

In its capital, Seoul

Question 58

Why is South Korea better suited to agriculture the North Korea?t

Answer 58

Warmer climate and less mountainous

Question 59

Who are North Korea's trading partners?

Answer 59

China and Soviet union

Question 60

Who are South Korea's trading partners?

Answer 60

United States and Japan

Question 61

South Korea became a major exporter of what items?

Answer 61

Textiles, clothing, automobiles, and electronic goods

Question 62

What led to a decline in North Korea's economy?

Answer 62

North Korea's lower standard of living

Question 63

Why is South Korea hesitant to reunify with North Korea

Answer 63

South Korea does not want to jeopardize standard of living or capitalist government mom

Question 64

What was the nonproliferation Treaty that North Korea pulled out of a 1993?

Answer 64

The nuclear nonproliferation Treaty