Japan before WWII - 8.4

One reason Japan followed a policy of expansionism before WWII was to gain?

• Additional Natural Resources

• Control of Hawaii

• Tibet

• additional territories

Japan invaded all of the following before WWII EXCEPT?

• China

• Manchuria

• Korea

• Vietnam

True or False: The League of Nations stepped in and stopped Japan from invading China.

• True

• False

Japan's invasion of Manchuria was based in part on a belief in?

• Communism

• Isolationism

• racial superiority

• appeasement

Japan committed brutal atrocities in the Chinese city of?

• Shanghai

• Nanking

• Seoul

• Beijing

What did Japan invade in 1931?

• Korea

• Taiwan

• Manchuria

• Mainland China

Across the country of Japan, a new sense of ___________ emerged.

• Pride

• Nationalism

• Values

• Smell

Who was the military leader of Japan during WWII?

• Charles De Gaulle
• Winston Churchill
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini

Commodore Matthew Perry’s visits to Japan in 1853 and 1854 resulted in the

• colonization of Japan by the United States

• transfer of spheres of influence to China

• introduction of Christianity to Japanese society

• opening of trade and diplomatic relations with Japan

What was the main economic reason industrialized nations wanted to imperialize non-industrialized nations?

• to gain raw materials and new markets

• to spread Christianity and other religions

• to show their national pride and cultural superiority

• to build factories and canals