Taking the slogan Sonno joi (“Honor the emperor, ________”), members of the “Satcho” clique challenged the shogunate and forced the Tokugawa to capitulate in 1867.
a. Despite his young age.
b. The power of the rising sun.
c. The dawn of a new day for Japan.
d. Expel the barbarian.
d. Expel the barbarian.
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. true b. false
Karl Marx agreed with Hegel that
A) a world spirit operates in history. B) history is a dialectical process with a goal. C) history is a gradual unfolding of eternal ideas. D) all of history is class struggle. E) communism and socialism theories were the same and should combine their groups.
What were Johnson’s feelings about committing the United States to the war in Vietnam?
A) He worried about the consequences of either withdrawal or invasion so he committed to a large-scale but limited military intervention. B) He worried about the consequences of being too cautious so he committed the American military to an all-out invasion of North Vietnam. C) He was worried about the consequences of a U.S. troop presence so he withdrew troops to Taiwan and Japan while he reconsidered his options. D) He worried about the spread of communism so he committed American troops to two fronts: in Vietnam and in China. E) He was worried about domestic unrest in the United States, so he decided he could not commit more than 10,000 troops to the effort.