9th Grade U - Mrs. Harms



9th Grade U.S. History                    Name___________________________

Chapter 14: Document Based Questions Date______________    Hour________________

Directions:

Answer the following questions based on the document from the Japan Times and Mail.

1. Much of the anti-Japanese feeling in the United States in the 1920s was in California. The opposition included California labor organizations. Why would California workers be against Japanese immigration? _______________________________________________________________________

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2. Why does the headline in the Japan Times and Mail call the Senate vote a “Declaration of War”?

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3. Seventeen years after this vote and this article, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. Is there a possible connection between the Immigration Quota Act of 1924 and Pearl Harbor? EXPLAIN. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Read the Background Essay: “Why did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor” and answer the questions.

4. What event took place at Versailles in 1919? ______________________________________________

5. Why did Woodrow Wilson push the League of Nations? ____________________________________

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6. Why didn’t the United States join the League? ____________________________________________

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7. Why were some Japanese leaders resentful of the peace treaty at Versailles? ______________________

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8. What country did Japan invade in the 1930s? _____________________________________________

9. The United States supported China. Why didn’t the U.S. go to war sooner against Japan?

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Read DOCUMENT A and answer the questions.

10. What is a “subject”? ________________________________________________________________

11. What is it meant by the “old order”? ___________________________________________________

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12. Name three countries that you think might have controlled the “old order”.

13. Who will be the leader of the “new order”? ______________________________________________

14. Who will be ruled by the “new order”? _________________________________________________

15. How does this document help explain “Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?”? __________________

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Read DOCUMENT B and answer the questions.

16. What area did Japan establish as a puppet state in 1932? ___________________________________

17. In what year did Japan begin its occupation of China outside of Manchuria? ____________________

18. “Japan is the fountain source of the (pure Japanese) race. Manchukuo is its reservoir and East Asia is its paddy field.” Is this quote from Document A supported or not by the map? EXPLAIN. ___________

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19. If Japan was interested in seizing oil fields, what islands might they invade? If the Europeans were busy fighting a war with Hitler, what nation could be expected to block Japan?

Read DOCUMENT C and answer the questions.

20. How many years was it between Japan’s attack on China and Pearl Harbor? ____________________

21. What is the “new order” that Japan announcement in 1928? (see DOCUMENT A) ________________

22. What evidence is there in 1939 that the U.S. did not like the “new order”? _____________________

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23. What does it mean to freeze assets and bank accounts? _____________________________________

24. What is an embargo? _______________________________________________________________

25. Judging from this timeline, why do you think Japan attacked Pearl Harbor? _____________________

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Read DOCUMENT D and answer the questions.

26. What is an import? ________________________________________________________________

27. In the late 1930s, about what percent of Japan’s oil came from the United States? ________________

28. Look at the DOCUMENT B map. Why would Japanese military leaders be interested in keeping up the flow of imported oil? ___________________________________________________________________

29. The United States stopped all trade of oil, steel and scrap iron with Japan on August 1, 1941. There is evidence that President Franklin Roosevelt was worried about cutting off all oil to Japan. What might have been his concern? _____________________________________________________________________

Read DOCUMENT E and answer the questions.

30. What is the speaker and what is his position? ____________________________________________

31. Why does Tojo say that it would be hard for Japan to pull their troops out of China?

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32. What is the U.S. position regarding Japanese soldiers in China? _____________________________

33. According to Tojo, how long will the Japanese supply of oil last? _____________________________

34. According to Tojo, what will happen to the U.S. Navy over the next few years? __________________

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35. Judging from this document, why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? _______________________

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