India & Japan Review
Across
- 3. going without food; Gandhi did this to end violence several times
- 7. country that was created after the independence of India that was composed of all the country's Muslims
- 8. the name of the US formal efforts to build the atomic (nuclear)
- 11. Gandhi led hundreds of followers on a march to the sea to protest British salt laws; troops attacked supporters of the march for attempting to close a British salt factory
- 13. the emperor of Japan during WWII; he had to admit he was not a god as part of the surrender
- 14. refusing physical aggression and harm as methods; using peaceful methods to gain political goals
- 17. not active; not dominant; not forceful
- 18. pride, belief, or devotion to one's country
- 20. US Military base (in Hawaii) bombed by Japanese
- 22. movement begun by Gandhi to boycott British goods by making cloth at home
Down
- 1. killing by British troops of nearly 400 unarmed Indians (1500 casualties), including children, gathered at Amritsar
- 2. refers to the Asian part of WWII
- 4. the president of the US during most of the US involvement in WWII; made the decision to drop atomic bombs
- 5. abstain from using or purchasing goods or services
- 6. general of the US/allies in Pacific theater of WWII (Asia); ruled Japan during the reconstruction period; wrote Japan's new constitution
- 9. the group that led Indian Independence; adopted Gandhi's strategies in 1920s.
- 10. the strategy used by the US/Allies during WWII (Asia); to jump from place to place throughout the Pacific Ocean, working their way to Japan
- 12. a government in which power is inherited, but also in which there is a document that limits that power for that person who inherited the power
- 15. location of a battle that was significant "turning point" of the Asian part of WWII
- 16. peaceful refusal to follow certain laws, usually those viewed as unjust (marches, strikes, gatherings in opposition to laws, etc. are examples)
- 19. the act of dividing something (the Muslims and Hindus partitioned India after independence)
- 21. nicknamed Mahatma which means "great soul"; most remembered leader of the Indian independence movement