Exercises on the Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a conflict between Japan and China that lasted from 1937 to 1945. This conflict was triggered by:

a) Mukden Incident.

b) Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

c) Manchukuo Incident.

d) Hirohito Incident.

e) Mao Zedong Incident.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the brutality of the Japanese army resulted in massive massacres against the Chinese civilian population. One such demonstration of violence took place in a Chinese city that had about 20,000 women raped and more than 200,000 citizens killed between 1937 and 1938. This is a reference to which city?

a) India ink.

b) Manchukuo.

c) Macau.

d) Hong Kong.

e) Beijing.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japan tried to carry out biological warfare in certain parts of China. The development of this action is due to a secret unit known as:

a) Hirohito Unit.

b) Manchukuo Unit.

c) Unit 731.

d) Amaterasu Unit.

e) Banzai Unit.

Tensions between China and Japan intensified after 1931, when the Japanese used a rigged attack on a Japanese railroad to justify the invasion of Manchuria. This event became known as:

a) Mukden Incident.

b) Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

c) Manchukuo Incident.

d) Hirohito Incident.

e) Mao Zedong Incident.

Letter B

The Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937, after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. This event happened with the disagreement between Chinese and Japanese troops over the disappearance of a Japanese soldier. The Japanese, thinking the soldier had been killed, attacked the Chinese troops. However, the soldier had only been lost after a military exercise. The war between China and Japan lasted until 1945.

Letter A

The rape of around 20,000 Chinese women by Japanese soldiers became known as the great rape of Nanking. The violence against the population of that city was a kind of revenge after the fierce fighting that took place in Shanghai. The Japanese carried out a massive massacre in the Chinese city, killing both military and civilians. The statistics most accepted by historians indicate that 200,000 people were killed by the Japanese in Nanjing.

Letter C

Unit 731 was officially known as the “Department of Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification”. However, this secret Japanese army unit was used throughout the war to promote atrocious research and develop biological warfare in China. Over the years of the war, cruel tests on living human beings were carried out, such as subjecting prisoners to very cold temperatures to test the resistance of the human body and purposely infecting them with serious diseases etc.

Letter A

Manchuria was an old target of interest for Japan and had already been disputed by that country in the war fought against Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. In the following decades, this interest intensified and, from the Mukden Incident, Japan had the pretext to carry out the invasion of the place. This incident was a forged attack against a Japanese railway installed in the region, in which Japan accused the Chinese of carrying out the attack and, for that reason, carried out the invasion in 1931, creating the puppet state of Manchukuo.