Deck 12: Japan in Wartime

Question 1

Who was Prime Minister during the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?

A) Inukai Tsuyoshi
B) Fukuzawa Yukichi
C) Ishiwara Kanji
D) Konoe Fumimaro

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Where was the most important collaborationist regime in China located?

A) Nanjing
B) Nomohan
C) Tianjin
D) Chongqing

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following Prime Ministers was NOT a military officer?

A) Abe Nobuyuki
B) Hiranuma Kiichiro
C) Yonai Matsumasa
D) Tojo Hidei

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which major resource were the Japanese hoping to secure in Southeast Asia?

A) Petroleum
B) Iron
C) Timber
D) Natural gas

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT a strategic error made by the Japanese in the early 1940s?

A) Underestimating how Chinese nationalism would fuel resistance
B) Not expecting the Americans to cut off trade in order to protect European colonies in Asia
C) Underestimating opposition to going to war in the Japanese population
D) Underestimating the American will to pursue a large-scale conflict

Question 6

What was the name of the trans-national institution the Japanese hoped to create under their aegis in Asia?

A) The Greater Japanese Empire
B) The New East Asian Order
C) The Sino-Japanese partnership
D) The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Question 7

How did the Japanese alienate the population of Vietnam during World War II?

A) They burned Hanoi to the ground
B) They did not give independence to Vietnam straight away
C) They sent large numbers of Vietnamese to fight and die in Imphal
D) They caused a huge famine

Question 8

What was the Economic New Order?

A) An attempt at creating state-controlled capitalism
B) The dedication of all of Japan's economic capacity to producing weapons
C) The transformation of Japan from an import-based to export-driven economy
D) A policy of preferring indigenous Japanese production to colonial production

Question 9

What happened to many small manufacturers under the Economic New Order?

A) They were bought out by zaibatsu
B) They were consolidated into industrial associations
C) They were forced to move out of cities
D) They were allocated raw materials and given the right to set prices

Question 10

What was the 'Sanpo'?

A) The Patriotic Industrial Service Association
B) The Home and Welfare Ministry
C) The key organization in the Economic New Order
D) The nickname for the second Konoe cabinet

Question 11

In which area was Sanpo most successful?

A) Mobilizing schoolchildren
B) Expanding munitions factories
C) Raising productivity in the colonies
D) It was not successful in any of these efforts

Question 12

Which commodity did the Japanese state assume complete control of in 1942?

A) Rice
B) Tea
C) Timber
D) Silk

Question 13

What was the Imperial Rule Assistance Association?

A) The institution that replaced all political parties
B) A civilian fan club for Emperor Hirohito
C) A branch of the Imperial Japanese Army
D) An effective replica of Germany's Nazi party

Question 14

What happened to the Diet in the 1930s and 1940s?

A) It lost much of its power and influence
B) It was by dissolved by the emperor
C) It was split from a unicameral body into one with two houses, the Upper and Lower
D) It was bombed first by domestic subversives and then by the United States

Question 15

Which of the following economic changes did NOT take place in Japan after 1937?

A) Real wages increased
B) Economic growth slowed
C) Taxes increased
D) Inflation increased

Question 16

How, in the view of those arguing for 'overcoming the modern', did Japan's worldview differ from that of Europe's?

A) Japanese gods were unforgiving, whereas Europe's God was merciful
B) The Japanese regarded their culture as divine, whereas Europeans did not think the same of their own,
C) Europeans were at odds with their gods, whereas the Japanese cooperated with theirs
D) European culture was impermanent and changing, whereas Japan's was enduring and eternal

Question 17

Which of the following Western imports was NOT discouraged or banned in wartime Japan?

A) Western neologisms like 'mama' and 'papa'.
B) Trousers
C) Baseball
D) Jazz

Question 18

Which of the following trends increased towards the end of World War II?

A) Workers not going in to work
B) Public drunkenness
C) Mass demonstrations
D) Attacks on the emperor

Question 19

What did some army officers plan to do with the emperor in the event of an American invasion?

A) Evacuate him to Taiwan
B) Evacuate him to China
C) Encourage him to commit suicide
D) Make a last stand with him in Tokyo

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT part of the impact of World War II on the environment of East Asia?

A) Recovery of fish stocks
B) Depletion of forests
C) Decline of wild bird populations
D) Large scale wartime reforestation