China and Japan 1870-1945

1. What did the US Commodore Matthew Perry demand?

a) Japan to open its ports to trade

b) Japan to donate excess funds to Africa
c)Japan to enter WWII
d) China to open its ports to trade

2. Who was the original leader of the Communist Party in China?

a) Sun-Yat sen
b) Mao Zedong
c) Emperor Meiji
d) Chiang Kai shek

3. What was the name of the war that was fought over the British
importing drugs into China?

a) Cultural Revolution
b) Opium War
c) Boxer Rebellion

4.Where did Japan attack the US?

a) The Philippines
b)Hawaii
c) Puerto Rico

5. The second atomic bomb was dropped on what city?

a) Hiroshima
b) Nagasaki
c) Osaka
d) Tokyo
6. Germany, Italy and Japan were a member of the…..Powers
during WWII

a) Allied
b) Axis
c) Western
d) Eastern

7.What caused the end of WWII in the Pacific?

a) Japan attacked Pearl Harbour

b) China declared war on Russia
c) Japan decided to invade countries in Africa
d) The US dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan

8.What was the policy that forced Chian to trade with the rest of
the world?
a) Meiji Restoration
b) Policy of Independence
c) Closed Door Policy
d) Open Door Policy

9.The illegal drug Opium was sold to China by the British but was
grown in which country?
a) China
b) India
c) Japan

10.What is the term that describes trading privileges for specific

countries to access in China?
a) feudalism
b) spheres of influence
c) restoration
d) Open Door Policy
11. Following the Boxer Rebellion and the end of imperial rule in
China, a Chinese civil war began between which two groups?

a) Republicans and Democrats

b) Chinese and Japanese
c) Nationalists and Communists

12.Mao Zedong started a campaign where he aimed at destroying

all elements of pre-communist China. What was it called?
a) Pre-war China
b) Cultural Revolution
c) Long March

13.The Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the first atomic
bomb on which Japanese city?

a) Nagasaki
b) Hiroshima
c) Osaka
d) Tokyo

14. What was the early army of Japan?

a) Shogun
b) Daimyo
c) Samurai

15. Who did China’s peasants align themselves with in the 1920s?
a) Qing Dynasty
b) Warlords
c) Nationalists
d) communists

16. Which group was known for taking a 6 000- mile journey
known as the Long March?
a) Chinese peasants fleeing the Japanese invaders
b) Chinese Communists fleeing the Nationalists
c) Chinese Nationalist fleeing the Communists

17. Under the Treaty of Versailles, to whom did the Allies give
Chinese territories to that had been controlled by Germany?

a) Italy
b) Japan
c) Russia
d) France

18. Who were the victims of the Shanghai Massacre, and who
were their murderers?

a) Chinese Nationalists were killed by the Chinese Red Army

b) Chinese Communists were killed by Chinese Nationalists
c) Chinese peasants were killed by a local warlords

19.What event in 1937 halted the Chinese civil war?

a) The Nationalists succeeded in wiping out the Communists

b) The Japanese launched an all-out invasion of China
c) Chinese Communists began Long March

20. Why was Japan motivated to create a colonial empire in the

late 1800?

a) to avoid the fate of a humiliated China, and become the

dominant power in Asia
b) to overtake Britain as the most dominant empire
c) to help the Western powers to civilize Asia
21. What region did Japan conquer in 1931 after theydetonated
dynamite close to a section of Japanese railway and blamed it on
the Chinese?

a) France
b) China
c) Manchuria
d) Korea

22. What did Russia and Japan fight over?

a) Korea
b) China
c) Vietnam
d) Manchuria

23. Which year was the Republic of China established?

a) 1915
b) 1912
c) 1885
d) 1905

24. Who was the first president of China?

a) Sun- Yat sen

b) Yuan Shih-kai
c) Chiang Kai-shek

25. Match the dates with the events

May Fourth Movement 1926

Northern Expedition 1927
Long March 1919
Purification Movement 1934