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What nations comprised the Axis?
Germany and Italy
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What cities were destroyed by atom bombs?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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When did the Soviet Union invade Manchuria?
8 August 1945
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By what name was the war with Japan referred?
Greater East Asia War
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What did Japanese officials call the war?
Japan–China Incident
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What was the reason Japan gave for the war?
achieving their independence from the Western powers
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What date was the new name of the war released?
12 December
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What name did Japan call the war?
Greater East Asia War
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When did Japan adobt the name for the war?
10 December 1941
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What was Japan's publicised war goal?
independence from the Western powers
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What did Japan call the occupied group of Asian nations?
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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How was the name of the war chosen by Japan?
by a cabinet decision
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What role did Thailand play in the war?
temporary alliance
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Which group controlled Chinese costal regions?
Wang Jingwei regime
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Which army invaded Burma?
Phayap Army
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Burma was formerly annexed by what country?
Britain
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What states assisting Japan was Thailand a part of?
Axis
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What year did Thailand form an alliance with Japan?
1941
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What army invaded northeastern Burma?
Phayap Army
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What were the Japanese puppet states?
Manchukuo and Mengjiang
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Who controlled the coast of China?
Wang Jingwei regime
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Did the U.S. believe that Thailand was an Axis ally?
not an ally
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What does the U.S. believe caused Thailand to help Japan?
blackmail
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Is Thailand treated differently than other Axis countries?
the same way
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According to the USA, what country did Japan blackmail?
Thailand
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What nations were occupied by the Axis?
Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands
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After 1945, how did the USA treat Thailand?
not as a former enemy
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Who occupied Thailand according to the USA?
Japanese troops
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Where did many of Japan's soldiers come from?
Korea and Formosa
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What type of soldiers came from Hong Kong?
Collaborationist units
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What other Asian country, a group of islands, helped the Japanese?
Philippines
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What colonies did Japan conscript soldiers from?
Korea and Formosa
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What French forces assisted Japan?
Vichy
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Who were the collaborators assisting Japan in Hong King?
ex-colonial police
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Did Mexico play a part in the war?
took part
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On which side of the war were the Chinese?
United States
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What other major continent participated as an ally of the U.S.?
Australia
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What colonies did the Netherlands possess?
Dutch East Indies and the western part of New Guinea
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What large Asian country was allied with the United States?
Republic of China
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What was the name of the Philippines nation?
Commonwealth of the Philippines
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What nation possessed the Dutch East Indies?
Netherlands
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What nation possessed west New Guinea?
Netherlands
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What incident occured on July 7, 1937?
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
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Who supplied assistance to the Chinese military?
Soviet Union
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When did the Nanking Massacre occur?
December 1937
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Where was the first Nationalist victory?
Taierzhuang
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How did people around the world react to Japan's Panay Incident?
condemned
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When was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?
7 July 1937
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What incident started the war between China and Japan?
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
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What nation provided material support to China?
Soviet Union
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What was the capital of China?
Nanking
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When was Nanking captured?
December 1937
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Who controled Indochina in 1940?
Vichy France
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When did Japan invade Indochina?
September 1940
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Who were the Axis Powers along with Japan in 1940?
Germany and Italy
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Did Japan and Germany work closely together prior to 1944?
little coordination
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When did Japan take over Indochina?
September 1940
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Who controlled Indochina before the Japanese takeover?
Vichy France
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When did Japan become an Axis power?
27 September
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How many nations comprised the Axis powers?
three
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How much coordination was there between Japan and Germany?
little
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Why did the Chinese ultimately fail in its counter offensives?
low military-industrial capacity
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What policy did Japan adopt to retaliate against China?
"Three Alls Policy" ("Kill all, Burn all, Loot all")
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What slowed the Japanese in their attacks on China?
mountainous terrain
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In what city did Japan set up a provisional capital?
Chungking
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What was Japan's "Three Alls Policy"?
"Kill all, Burn all, Loot all"
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What year did China and Japan reach a stalemate?
1941
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Where was the Chinese provisional capital?
Chungking
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What natural obsticles stalled the Japanese offensive against the Chinese?
mountainous terrain
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What group organised guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in China?
Communists
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Who was the leader of the Nationalist government?
Chiang Kai-shek
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When did cooperation between communist and nationalist forces end?
January 1941
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Did Japan support rival governments?
supporting several
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When did the co-operation between Chinese nationalist forces and communists end?
January 1941
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What was Wang Jingwei's government considered?
puppet
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What government did Chiang Kai-shek lead?
Nationalist government
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Which Japanese Admiral felt it was necessary to go to war with the U.S.?
Sankichi Takahashi
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Why was the Dutch East Indies important to Japan?
oil reserves
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In what year did the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere expand?
1940
[ "Pacific_War\n\nFrom as early as 1935 Japanese military strategists had concluded the Dutch East Indies were, because of their oil reserves, of considerable importance to Japan. By 1940 they had expanded this to include Indo-China, Malaya, and the Philippines within their concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosper...
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What was the importance of the Dutch East Indies to Japan?
oil reserves
[ "Pacific_War\n\nFrom as early as 1935 Japanese military strategists had concluded the Dutch East Indies were, because of their oil reserves, of considerable importance to Japan. By 1940 they had expanded this to include Indo-China, Malaya, and the Philippines within their concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosper...
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Who said a showdown between Japan and the United States would be necessary?
Admiral Sankichi Takahashi
[ "Pacific_War\n\nFrom as early as 1935 Japanese military strategists had concluded the Dutch East Indies were, because of their oil reserves, of considerable importance to Japan. By 1940 they had expanded this to include Indo-China, Malaya, and the Philippines within their concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosper...
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By what year did Japanese strategists expand their concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
1940
[ "Pacific_War\n\nFrom as early as 1935 Japanese military strategists had concluded the Dutch East Indies were, because of their oil reserves, of considerable importance to Japan. By 1940 they had expanded this to include Indo-China, Malaya, and the Philippines within their concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosper...
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What did The West do to disuade Japan in China and French Indochina?
stopped selling oil, iron ore, and steel to Japan
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Why was denying supplies important to the western countries?
denying it the raw materials needed to continue its activities
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What were these embargoes called by the Japanese media?
"ABCD ("American-British-Chinese-Dutch")
[ "Pacific_War\n\nIn an effort to discourage Japanese militarism, Western powers including Australia, the United States, Britain, and the Dutch government in exile, which controlled the petroleum-rich Dutch East Indies, stopped selling oil, iron ore, and steel to Japan, denying it the raw materials needed to continue...
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Why did Western powers stop selling resources to Japan?
to discourage Japanese militarism
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How did Japan view Western embargos?
as acts of aggression
[ "Pacific_War\n\nIn an effort to discourage Japanese militarism, Western powers including Australia, the United States, Britain, and the Dutch government in exile, which controlled the petroleum-rich Dutch East Indies, stopped selling oil, iron ore, and steel to Japan, denying it the raw materials needed to continue...
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What percent of oil made up Japan's domestic consumption?
about 80%
[ "Pacific_War\n\nIn an effort to discourage Japanese militarism, Western powers including Australia, the United States, Britain, and the Dutch government in exile, which controlled the petroleum-rich Dutch East Indies, stopped selling oil, iron ore, and steel to Japan, denying it the raw materials needed to continue...
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What did the Japanese media refer to the embargoes as?
"ABCD line"
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What would Japan accomplish by peace after their early victories?
recognize Japanese hegemony in Asia.
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What was Japan's strategic goal in attacking America?
defeated by reaching limited military objectives, not by total conquest
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Did The Japanese believe they could defeate the U.S.?
impossible
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What did the Japanese military leadership think the chances were of complete military victory ove the United States?
impossible
[ "Pacific_War\n\nThe Japanese leadership was aware that a total military victory in a traditional sense against the USA was impossible; the alternative would be negotiating for peace after their initial victories, which would recognize Japanese hegemony in Asia. In fact, the Imperial GHQ noted, should acceptable neg...
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What did Japan want recognised in planned peace negotiations after their initial victories?
Japanese hegemony in Asia
[ "Pacific_War\n\nThe Japanese leadership was aware that a total military victory in a traditional sense against the USA was impossible; the alternative would be negotiating for peace after their initial victories, which would recognize Japanese hegemony in Asia. In fact, the Imperial GHQ noted, should acceptable neg...
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If acceptable negotiations btween Japan and the United States were reached, what would be done regarding the attacks?
canceled
[ "Pacific_War\n\nThe Japanese leadership was aware that a total military victory in a traditional sense against the USA was impossible; the alternative would be negotiating for peace after their initial victories, which would recognize Japanese hegemony in Asia. In fact, the Imperial GHQ noted, should acceptable neg...
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What was the conduct of the war against the United States based on?
historical experiences
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How many U.S. battleships were incapacitated in the Pearl Harbor attacks?
eight
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How many Americans died in the Pearl Harbor attacks?
2,403
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Was America at war when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
not officially at war
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Why did Japan attack America?
allow Japan free rein in Asia
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