Reading Quiz - WWII

Question 0

Manchurian Incident

Answer 0

Shock expressed by world leaders and most Japanese. Japanese troops claimed Chinese soldiers tried to blow up a railway line, took matters into their own hands by capturing several southern Manchurian cities, and by continuing to take over the country even after Chinese troops had withdrawn

Question 1

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 1

Japan condemned war and pledged to solve all disagreements peacefully

Question 2

Puppet State

Answer 2

Supposedly independent country under the control of a powerful neighbor

Question 3

Burma Road

Answer 3

A 700-mile-long highway linking Burma (present-day Myanmar) to China.

Question 4

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Answer 4

As announces in 1940 by Japan’s prime minister, the area extending from Manchuria to the Dutch East Indies in which Japan would expand it’s influence.

Question 5

Neutrality Acts

Answer 5

Acts 1939 laws designed to keep U.S. out of future wars.

Question 6

Cash and Carry

Answer 6

WWII policy requiring nations at war to pay cash for all nonmilitary goods to be responsible for transporting the goods from the U.S.

Question 7

America First Committee

Answer 7

Groups formed in 1940 by isolationists to block further aid to Britain

Question 8

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 8

Authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security.