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Early History: Japan
700s A.D.Had EmperorJapan – Feudal systemReligion – Shinto
Respect for nature and ancestors
•Shogun – powerful warlordShogun – powerful warlord•Samurai – professional Samurai – professional
warriorswarriors–Served shogunServed shogun
•Peasants – farmed and dug Peasants – farmed and dug ditches ditches
•Merchants and artisans Merchants and artisans
Threat of Mongolians
Forces Japanese lords to unite 1274 – 1st invasion sent by
Kublai Kahn Japanese fended off
•MongolMongol Fleet Fleet– LargeLarge ships filled with men; ships filled with men; huge armadahuge armada
•JapaneseJapanese Fleet Fleet– SmallSmall, light, crafts, light, crafts
Fleet destroyed by typhoonsFleet destroyed by typhoons kamikazekamikaze or “ or “divine winddivine wind”” Mongols never returned Mongols never returned
Doris “Dorie” Miller
African American Awarded the Navy Cross for heroism
during Pearl Harbor – Dec 7, 1941 “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty”
poster – used in WW II Died 1943
Admiral Nimitz Citation
• "For distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge”
• "Howard A. Wooten." Graduated December 1944 from Air Corps School, Tuskegee, AL. Ca. December 1944.
1853 – Commodore Matthew Perry, U.S. Navy, went to Japan to open trade
Treaty of Kanagawa – opened Japan to trade with America
Meiji Restoration
Samurai wanted reformsOverthrew last shogunRestored emperor’s powerMeiji – “enlightened rule”Capital moved to Tokyo
Emperor begins to modernize Emperor begins to modernize JapanJapan
18901890 – Japan has – Japan has strongeststrongest militarymilitary in Asia in Asia
1895 – take Taiwan1905 – take territory from Russia1910 – annex KoreaAfter WW I – gain more territories1937 – invade China
- 1939 – Hitler begins invasions
After WW IIAfter WW II
•Japan looses KoreaJapan looses Korea•North Korea – Soviet UnionNorth Korea – Soviet Union•South Korea – U.S. South Korea – U.S. •1949 – Soviet and U.S. 1949 – Soviet and U.S.
withdraw from Koreawithdraw from Korea
1950 – N. Korea invades S. Korea
U.S. helps defend S. KoreaChina steps in to help N. Korea1953 – two sides sign armistice,
or truce, to end the fighting
• DMZ – demilitarized zone
–Land between N. and S. Korea
–“buffer zone”
–No military forces enter
–38th parallel