The Rise of Modern Japan

Question 1

How did Japan become the most powerful nation in Asia?

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Japan adopted Western military technologies and training methods.

Question 2

Which of these events occurred first?

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the Tokugawa Shogunate rule

Question 3

What was Commodore Perry’s significant contribution to the beginning of Japan’s transformation?

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He opened Japan to the West.

Question 4

What realization did China and Japan share following the Sino-Japanese War?

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Their isolationist past had left them far behind western society.

Question 5

Because Japan felt disrespected by the provisions of the Treaty of Portsmouth, it would most likely lead Japan to

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lack of trust in the US and future negotiations with it.

Question 6

How would a government legally take control of another territory to add it to its own?

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Annex it.

Question 7

The peace conference ending the Russo-Japanese War took place in which country?

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the US

Question 8

Which is a true statement about the Treaty of Kanagawa?

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It was an unequal treaty that favored the US.

Question 9

The tsar was quick to agree to negotiate a peace treaty to end the Russo-Japanese War mainly because

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Russia was fighting a strong military from afar.

Question 10

Which nation was especially worried about Japan’s victory in the Sino-Japanese War?

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Russia

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