Question: What changed in the ruling of Japan after the war?
Answer: a new liberal-democratic constitution

Question: Where did Japan's surrender occur?
Answer: aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay

Question: What was the process called whereby the leader of Japan stepped down?
Answer: Shinto Directive

Question: What nation were the allies against?
Answer: Japan

Question: What nations comprised the Axis?
Answer: Germany and Italy

Question: What cities were destroyed by atom bombs?
Answer: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question: When did the Soviet Union invade Manchuria?
Answer: 8 August 1945

Question: When did Japan surrender?
Answer: 2 September 1945

Question: By what name was the war with Japan referred?
Answer: Greater East Asia War

Question: What did Japanese officials call the war?
Answer: Japan–China Incident

Question: What was the reason Japan gave for the war?
Answer: achieving their independence from the Western powers

Question: What date was the new name of the war released?
Answer: 12 December

Question: What name did Japan call the war?
Answer: Greater East Asia War

Question: When did Japan adobt the name for the war?
Answer: 10 December 1941

Question: What was Japan's publicised war goal?
Answer: independence from the Western powers

Question: What did Japan call the occupied group of Asian nations?
Answer: Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Question: How was the name of the war chosen by Japan?
Answer: by a cabinet decision

Question: What role did Thailand play in the war?
Answer: temporary alliance

Question: Which group controlled Chinese costal regions?
Answer: Wang Jingwei regime

Question: Which army invaded Burma?
Answer: Phayap Army

Question: Burma was formerly annexed by what country?
Answer: Britain

Question: What states assisting Japan was Thailand a part of?
Answer: Axis

Question: What year did Thailand form an alliance with Japan?
Answer: 1941

Question: What army invaded northeastern Burma?
Answer: Phayap Army

Question: What were the Japanese puppet states?
Answer: Manchukuo and Mengjiang

Question: Who controlled the coast of China?
Answer: Wang Jingwei regime

Question: Did the U.S. believe that Thailand was an Axis ally?
Answer: not an ally

Question: What does the U.S. believe caused Thailand to help Japan?
Answer: blackmail

Question: Is Thailand treated differently than other Axis countries?
Answer: the same way

Question: According to the USA, what country did Japan blackmail?
Answer: Thailand

Question: What nations were occupied by the Axis?
Answer: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands

Question: After 1945, how did the USA treat Thailand?
Answer: not as a former enemy

Question: Who occupied Thailand according to the USA?
Answer: Japanese troops

Question: Where did many of Japan's soldiers come from?
Answer: Korea and Formosa

Question: What type of soldiers came from Hong Kong? 
Answer: Collaborationist units

Question: What other Asian country, a group of islands, helped the Japanese?
Answer: Philippines

Question: What French forces assisted Japan?
Answer: Vichy

Question: What colonies did Japan conscript soldiers from?
Answer: Korea and Formosa

Question: Who were the collaborators assisting Japan in Hong King?
Answer: ex-colonial police

Question: Did Mexico play a part in the war?
Answer: took part

Question: What other major continent participated as an ally of the U.S.?
Answer: Australia

Question: On which side of the war were the Chinese?
Answer: United States

Question: What colonies did the Netherlands possess?
Answer: Dutch East Indies and the western part of New Guinea

Question: What large Asian country was allied with the United States?
Answer: Republic of China

Question: What was the name of the Philippines nation?
Answer: Commonwealth of the Philippines

Question: What nation possessed the Dutch East Indies?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: What nation possessed west New Guinea?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: What incident occured on July 7, 1937?
Answer: Marco Polo Bridge Incident

Question: Who supplied assistance to the Chinese military?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: When did the Nanking Massacre occur?
Answer: December 1937

Question: Where was the first Nationalist victory?
Answer: Taierzhuang

Question: How did people around the world react to Japan's Panay Incident?
Answer: condemned

Question: When was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?
Answer: 7 July 1937

Question: What incident started the war between China and Japan?
Answer: Marco Polo Bridge Incident

Question: What was the capital of China?
Answer: Nanking

Question: When was Nanking captured?
Answer: December 1937

Question: What nation provided material support to China?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: Who controled Indochina in 1940?
Answer: Vichy France

Question: Who were the Axis Powers along with Japan in 1940?
Answer: Germany and Italy

Question: When did Japan invade Indochina?
Answer: September 1940

Question: Did Japan and Germany work closely together prior to 1944?
Answer: little coordination

Question: When did Japan take over Indochina?
Answer: September 1940

Question: Who controlled Indochina before the Japanese takeover?
Answer: Vichy France

Question: When did Japan become an Axis power?
Answer: 27 September

Question: How much coordination was there between Japan and Germany?
Answer: little

Question: How many nations comprised the Axis powers?
Answer: three

Question: Why did the Chinese ultimately fail in its counter offensives?
Answer: low military-industrial capacity

Question: What policy did Japan adopt to retaliate against China?
Answer: "Three Alls Policy" ("Kill all, Burn all, Loot all")

Question: What slowed the Japanese in their attacks on China?
Answer: mountainous terrain

Question: In what city did Japan set up a provisional capital?
Answer: Chungking

Question: What was Japan's "Three Alls Policy"?
Answer: "Kill all, Burn all, Loot all"

Question: What year did China and Japan reach a stalemate?
Answer: 1941

Question: Where was the Chinese provisional capital?
Answer: Chungking

Question: What natural obsticles stalled the Japanese offensive against the Chinese?
Answer: mountainous terrain

Question: What group organised guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in China?
Answer: Communists

Question: Who was the leader of the Nationalist government?
Answer: Chiang Kai-shek

Question: When did cooperation between communist and nationalist forces end?
Answer: January 1941

Question: Did Japan support rival governments?
Answer: supporting several

Question: When did the co-operation between Chinese nationalist forces and communists end?
Answer: January 1941

Question: What was Wang Jingwei's government considered?
Answer: puppet

Question: What government did Chiang Kai-shek lead?
Answer: Nationalist government

Question: Which Japanese Admiral felt it was necessary to go to war with the U.S.?
Answer: Sankichi Takahashi

Question: Why was the Dutch East Indies important to Japan?
Answer: oil reserves

Question: In what year did the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere expand?
Answer: 1940

Question: Who said a showdown between Japan and the United States would be necessary?
Answer: Admiral Sankichi Takahashi

Question: What was the importance of the Dutch East Indies to Japan?
Answer: oil reserves

Question: By what year did Japanese strategists expand their concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
Answer: 1940

Question: What were these embargoes called by the Japanese media?
Answer: "ABCD ("American-British-Chinese-Dutch")

Question: What did The West do to disuade Japan in China and French Indochina?
Answer: stopped selling oil, iron ore, and steel to Japan

Question: Why was denying supplies important to the western countries?
Answer: denying it the raw materials needed to continue its activities

Question: Why did Western powers stop selling resources to Japan?
Answer: to discourage Japanese militarism