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Chinese History 101 Quiz #9

Test your knowledge of Chinese history between 1937 - 1945 AD. All answers can be found in my Chinese History 101 blog.
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Last updated: December 26, 2021
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1. After which incident did the Second Sino-Japanese War break out in 1937?
Shanghai Incident (1/28 Incident)
Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7/7 Incident)
Xi'an Incident
Mukden Incident (9/18 Incident)
2. Which bloody battle in 1937 was considered the "Stalingrad of the Yangtze"?
Battle of Shanghai
Battle of Changsha
Battle of Nanking
Battle of Wuhan
3. How many people did the Chinese claim to have been massacred by the Japanese in the Rape of Nanking?
200,000
300,000
500,000
100,000
4. What caused the 1938 Yellow River flood that killed half a million people?
The Chinese Communist guerrillas destroyed the dike in a desperate attempt to avoid annihilation by the Nationalist forces
A natural disaster caused by massive rainfall in Central China
The Chinese Nationalist Government destroyed the dike in a desperate attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces
The Japanese Army destroyed the dike as part of the "Three Alls Policy" (kill all, loot all, burn all)
5. What was Wang Jingwei most famous for?
As a Communist leader who fought guerrilla war against the Japanese
As a Chinese diplomat who successfully persuaded the American to support China against Japan
As a collaborationist with the Japanese and headed the puppet state of Nationalist Government in Nanjing in 1940
As a national hero in defeating the Japanese in the three Battles of Changsha
6. Why did the Soviet aid to China end in 1941?
It signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact to avoid fighting war on two fronts
It split with the Chinese Communists over difference in war tactics
It split with the American over the future of the Korean peninsula
It split with the Chinese Nationalist Government over Mongolian independence
7. When did the British colony of Hong Kong surrender to Japan?
On New Year's Day 1942
On Christmas Day 1941
On Good Friday 1941
On Easter Sunday 1942
8. What was the Japanese Unit 731 famous for?
Enslaving 200,000 "comfort women" to serve as sex slaves for the Japanese troops
Suicide attacks by flying fighter planes onto American aircraft carriers
Experimenting biological weapons on thousands of Chinese PoWs, women and children
Enslaving 250,000 civilians and PoWs in building the Thai-Burma Railway
9. What was the Japanese objective of Operation Ichi-Go in 1944?
To destroy American airfields in southern China that threatened the Japanese home islands
To block supplies to China via the Burma Road
To rid the Chinese Communist guerrillas in the northwest
To prevent Soviet Union invasion of Manchukuo
10. Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons the US dropped two atomic bombs in Japan in 1945?
To prevent the Soviet Union entry into the war and occupying Japan
Japan still controlled much of China, Korea and Southeast Asia in 1945
To prevent huge casualties that an invasion of Japan would have involved
The Chinese government requested the United States to bomb Japan as a revenge for the war atrocities committed by the Japanese
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