The European Colonial Empires, 1900-1945
Multiple Choice Questions
Exam Questions
Discussion Questions
How did America shape postwar Japan’s role in the international system, 1945-1960?
What was the “reverse course” in US-Japanese relationship in the late 1940s?
To what extent was Japan demilitarized during the Cold War?
Why was the 1960 Security Treaty so contentious in Japan?
Why did the Japanese economy undergo a boom in the 1960s?
How did the Japanese economic revival in the 1960s to 1980s influence the relationship with the United States?
How did the Japanese economic rise create new opportunities in its foreign policy?
Account for the Japanese economic downturn in the 1990s.
How stable was the Japanese relationship with Taiwan and South Korea after 1945?
Why didn’t South Korea or Taiwan embrace democracy as thoroughly as Japan during the Cold War?
Exam Questions
Compare and contrast the American occupation of Japan and Germany.
How have trade and defense policies interacted in American relations with Japan?
Compare and contrast the rise of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan between 1945 and 1990.
Weblinks
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/japan001.asp – text of US-Japan security treaty 1951
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1952kotaro.asp – text of Tanaka Kotaro, In Search of Truth and Peace 1952
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb253/doc26.pdf – text of US document discussing Japanese position on nuclear weapons in 1968
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/japan01.htm – text of joint Japanese-Chinese communique on relations 1972
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB175/japan2-05.pdf – 1982 US planning document on persuading the Japanese to spend more on defense
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/117546 – text of correspondence regarding Japan-Korean disagreements 1959
https://japan.kantei.go.jp/koizumispeech/2003/03/20houkoku_e.html – Japanese statement on oil security policy 2003
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB175/japan2-09.pdf – 1987 briefing memorandum on US-Japanese relations
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/japan02.htm – Sino-Japanese document on building cooperative policies in 1998
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB175/japan2-14.pdf – text of US-Japanese discussions on North Korean nuclear program 1991
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