Responses to Japanese Expansion 1931-1941

What is collective security, the concept behind the international system which the League of Nations was a part?

• Shared military exercises and drills

• Border controls split between two countries

• Joint action among nations to deal with aggression

• Each nation in the system was responsible for its own defense

Its occupation in 1937 became a full-scale Sino-Japanese war.

• Yanan

• Manchuria

• Nanjing

• Shanghai

What did the US begin to do to try and make Japan stop attacking China in the late 1930s?

• bombed them
• cut off supplies of food
• cut off supplies of iron, steel, and oil
• nothing

Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?      

• Because they wanted to continue to take over countries in Southeast Asia 
• Because they wanted to cripple the US Navy
• Because they wanted to prevent the US from attacking Japan 
• All of the above

What was the reaction of the United States to the attack on Pearl Harbor?

• They declared war on Japan the next day
• They fled back to the US coast and let Japan have Southeast Asia 
• They asked Great Britain for help 
• They waited several months to see what would happen next 

This 1928 pact signed by many nations, including Japan, was a promise not to use war to solve any disputes or conflicts.

• Treaty of Versailles

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Anti-Comintern Pact

• London Pact

The League of Nations report, published one year after the Mukden Incident, denouncing the Japanese takeover of Manchuria and stating they should withdraw and leave it to the Chinese was _?

• the Hossbach Memorandum

• the Starr Report

• the Lytton Commission Report

• the Washington Treaty Report

At first, the Chinese Nationalist party leader, Jiang, was more focused on fighting ___ instead of the Japanese until the Second United Front.

• Soviets

• anarchists

• communists

• Germans

A national foreign policy to not interfere in international affairs much and pursue one's one interests (as the US did in the 20s and 30s) is known as __.

• isolationism

• empiricism

• stoicism

• individualism

Why didn't the US act more definitively against Japanese actions in Manchuria in the early 1930s?

• US security wasn't threatened by the invasion of Manchuria.

• The US didn't have a large naval presence in the Pacific.

• The US had more important trade relationships with Japan than China.

• Some in the US thought China could develop more industrially under the Japanese.