20th Century Asia and East Asia - Page 2

Questions
  • What was the significance of the Battle of Okinawa?
  • Which Japanese city did Americans dropped an atomic bomb at the end of World War II that killed 140,000 Japanese?
  • In what town did negotiators struggle and fail to reach a peace accord to bring to an end to the armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula?
  • How many people in Indonesia died in the tsunami and earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004?
  • In 1945, what concern did the Allies have about invading the Japanese mainland with ground forces?
  • Who was Aung San Suu Kyi?
  • Amelia Earhart was the first woman to do what?
  • What is the difference between the "People's Republic of China" and the "Republic of of China."?
  • What was the international trade organization established in 1948 to promote economic cooperation?
  • Why did communist leaders feel they had scored a victory in Korea?
  • Did the Japanese invasion of China provoke the US into using the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If not, what provoked the us government into using these weapons?
  • What was the name of the Japanese commander in chief who planned the Pearl Harbor attack?
  • How did The Russian Revolution inspire Marxism in Asia?
  • What is Siam called today?
  • What system of measurement does the Philippines use?
  • What was the effect of Japan's self-imposed isolation?
  • How does Japan's economic recession affect the roles of women and birth rates?
  • Koreans called the 1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty what?
  • Why were North and South Korea divided after World War II?
  • What about Ho Chi Minh made the domino theory wrong?