The Sino Japanese war assessment

The Sino Japanese war assessment
What is being signed in this photograph?
46. With which country did Britain enter into a formal military alliance on 25 August 1939?
A) France B) USSR C) Poland.
47. In what year did Berlin host the Olympic Games?
48. Truth or fiction? A secret protocol in the Nazi–Soviet pact left Hitler free to attack Poland
without risking war with the Soviet Union.
49. Which country was the only one to boycott the Berlin Olympics? A) Britain B) USSR C)
Greece.
50. Truth or fiction? No Jewish athletes won medals at the Berlin Olympics despite many
competing.
51. How many gold medals did African–American athlete Jesse Owens win at the Berlin
Olympics?
A) Three B) Four C) Five.
52. Truth or fiction? During the Berlin Olympics, anti-Jewish signs were temporarily removed
and anti-Semitic newspapers were taken off public display in Berlin.
53. What does ‘radar’ stand for?
A) Radio and data results B) Radio detection and ranging C) Radio direction and range.
54. What was the name given to the chain of early warning stations built in the 1930s along the
south and east coasts of England to detect enemy aircraft?
55. Name the air defence system set up by Britain prior to World War II? To wed his gem
dynst.
56. American journalist William Shirer wrote in his diary: ‘I’m afraid the Nazis have succeeded
with their propaganda.’ What was he referring to? (©The Estate of William Shirer)
57. In September 1931, Japan invaded and occupied which area of China?
58. What name did Japan give to the province of China they occupied in 1931?
A) Manchu B) Manchukuo C) Manchufu.
59. In January 1932, Japanese forces attacked by land, sea and air which Chinese city? Nags
hiah.
60. What was the Chinese name of the Chinese Nationalist Party and who was the leader from
1925?
61. The Sino–Japanese war began in which year?
A) 1935 B) 1936 C) 1937.
62. Which two groups suspended their civil war to fight the Japanese invasion of China?
63. What was the name given to the atrocities perpetrated by Japanese troops in December
1937, when they captured the Kuomintang capital?
64. In Britain, how many gas masks were issued before war broke out? A) 24 million B) 34
million C) 44 million.
65. Truth or fiction? In 1935, Australian prime minister Billy Hughes predicted the war in his
book Australia and the War Today.
66. Which Italian king named Mussolini prime minister after the fascist leader threatened to
march on Rome with his fascist followers in 1922