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The Axis states which assisted Japan included the authoritarian government of Thailand in World War II, which quickly formed a temporary alliance with the Japanese in 1941, as the Japanese forces were already invading the peninsula of southern Thailand. The Phayap Army sent troops to invade and occupy northeastern Burma, which was former Thai territory that had been annexed by Britain much earlier. Also involved were the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and Mengjiang (consisting of most of Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia respectively), and the collaborationist Wang Jingwei regime (which controlled the coastal regions of China).

Question: What states assisting Japan was Thailand a part of? Question: What role did Thailand play in the war? Question: What year did Thailand form an alliance with Japan? Question: Which army invaded Burma? Question: What army invaded northeastern Burma? Question: Burma was formerly annexed by what country? Question: What were the Japanese puppet states? Question: Which group controlled Chinese costal regions? Question: Who controlled the coast of China?
The official policy of the U.S. Government is that Thailand was not an ally of the Axis, and that the United States was not at war with Thailand. The policy of the U.S. Government ever since 1945 has been to treat Thailand not as a former enemy, but rather as a country which had been forced into certain actions by Japanese blackmail, before being occupied by Japanese troops. Thailand has been treated by the United States in the same way as such other Axis-occupied countries as Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands.

Question: According to the USA, what country did Japan blackmail? Question: Did the U.S. believe that Thailand was an Axis ally? Question: After 1945, how did the USA treat Thailand? Question: What does the U.S. believe caused Thailand to help Japan? Question: Who occupied Thailand according to the USA? Question: Is Thailand treated differently than other Axis countries? Question: What nations were occupied by the Axis?
Japan conscripted many soldiers from its colonies of Korea and Formosa (Taiwan). To a small extent, some Vichy French, Indian National Army, and Burmese National Army forces were active in the area of the Pacific War. Collaborationist units from Hong Kong (reformed ex-colonial police), Philippines, Dutch East Indies (the PETA) and Dutch Guinea, British Malaya and British Borneo, Inner Mongolia and former French Indochina (after the overthrow of Vichy French regime) as well as Timorese militia also assisted Japanese war efforts.

Question: Where did many of Japan's soldiers come from? Question: What colonies did Japan conscript soldiers from? Question: What French forces assisted Japan? Question: What type of soldiers came from Hong Kong? Question: Who were the collaborators assisting Japan in Hong King? Question: What other Asian country, a group of islands, helped the Japanese?
The major Allied participants were the United States, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom (including the armed forces of British India, the Fiji Islands, Samoa, etc.), Australia, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the Netherlands (as the possessor of the Dutch East Indies and the western part of New Guinea), New Zealand, and Canada, all of whom were members of the Pacific War Council. Mexico, Free France and many other countries also took part, especially forces from other British colonies.

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By 1937, Japan controlled Manchuria and was ready to move deeper into China. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937 provoked full-scale war between China and Japan. The Nationalist and Communist Chinese suspended their civil war to form a nominal alliance against Japan, and the Soviet Union quickly lent support by providing large amount of materiel to Chinese troops. In August 1937, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek deployed his best army to fight about 300,000 Japanese troops in Shanghai, but, after three months of fighting, Shanghai fell. The Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back, capturing the capital Nanking in December 1937 and committed which was known as Nanking Massacre. In March 1938, Nationalist forces won their first victory at Taierzhuang. but then the city of Xuzhou was taken by Japanese in May. In June 1938, Japan deployed about 350,000 troops to invade Wuhan and captured it in October. The Japanese achieved major military victories, but world opinion—in particular in the United States—condemned Japan, especially after the Panay Incident.

Question: What incident occured on July 7, 1937? Question: What incident started the war between China and Japan? Question: When was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident? Question: Who supplied assistance to the Chinese military? Question: What nation provided material support to China? Question: What was the capital of China? Question: When did the Nanking Massacre occur? Question: When was Nanking captured? Question: Where was the first Nationalist victory? Question: How did people around the world react to Japan's Panay Incident?
In September 1940, Japan decided to cut China's only land line to the outside world by seizing Indochina, which was controlled at the time by Vichy France. Japanese forces broke their agreement with the Vichy administration and fighting broke out, ending in a Japanese victory. On 27 September Japan signed a military alliance with Germany and Italy, becoming one of the three Axis Powers. In practice, there was little coordination between Japan and Germany until 1944, by which time the U.S. was deciphering their secret diplomatic correspondence.

Question: When did Japan invade Indochina? Question: When did Japan take over Indochina? Question: Who controled Indochina in 1940? Question: Who controlled Indochina before the Japanese takeover? Question: When did Japan become an Axis power? Question: Who were the Axis Powers along with Japan in 1940? Question: How many nations comprised the Axis powers? Question: Did Japan and Germany work closely together prior to 1944? Question: How much coordination was there between Japan and Germany?
The war entered a new phase with the unprecedented defeat of the Japanese at Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang and 1st Battle of Changsha. After these victories, Chinese nationalist forces launched a large-scale counter-offensive in early 1940; however, due to its low military-industrial capacity, it was repulsed by Japanese army in late March 1940. In August of 1940, Chinese communists launched an offensive in Central China; in retaliation, Japan instituted the "Three Alls Policy" ("Kill all, Burn all, Loot all") in occupied areas to reduce human and material resources for the communists. By 1941 the conflict had become a stalemate. Although Japan had occupied much of northern, central, and coastal China, the Nationalist Government had retreated to the interior with a provisional capital set up at Chungking while the Chinese communists remained in control of base areas in Shaanxi. In addition, Japanese control of northern and central China was somewhat tenuous, in that Japan was usually able to control railroads and the major cities ("points and lines"), but did not have a major military or administrative presence in the vast Chinese countryside. The Japanese found its aggression against the retreating and regrouping Chinese army was stalled by the mountainous terrain in southwestern China while the Communists organised widespread guerrilla and saboteur activities in northern and eastern China behind the Japanese front line.

Question: Why did the Chinese ultimately fail in its counter offensives? Question: What policy did Japan adopt to retaliate against China? Question: What was Japan's "Three Alls Policy"? Question: What year did China and Japan reach a stalemate? Question: In what city did Japan set up a provisional capital? Question: Where was the Chinese provisional capital? Question: What slowed the Japanese in their attacks on China? Question: What natural obsticles stalled the Japanese offensive against the Chinese? Question: What group organised guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in China?
Japan sponsored several puppet governments, one of which was headed by Wang Jingwei. However, its policies of brutality toward the Chinese population, of not yielding any real power to these regimes, and of supporting several rival governments failed to make any of them a viable alternative to the Nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek. Conflicts between Chinese communist and nationalist forces vying for territory control behind enemy lines culminated in a major armed clash in January 1941, effectively ending their co-operation.

Question: What was Wang Jingwei's government considered? Question: Did Japan support rival governments? Question: What government did Chiang Kai-shek lead? Question: Who was the leader of the Nationalist government? Question: When did cooperation between communist and nationalist forces end? Question: When did the co-operation between Chinese nationalist forces and communists end?
From as early as 1935 Japanese military strategists had concluded the Dutch East Indies were, because of their oil reserves, of considerable importance to Japan. By 1940 they had expanded this to include Indo-China, Malaya, and the Philippines within their concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Japanese troop build ups in Hainan, Taiwan, and Haiphong were noted, Japanese Army officers were openly talking about an inevitable war, and Admiral Sankichi Takahashi was reported as saying a showdown with the United States was necessary.

Question: Why was the Dutch East Indies important to Japan? Question: What was the importance of the Dutch East Indies to Japan? Question: In what year did the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere expand? Question: By what year did Japanese strategists expand their concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere? Question: Who said a showdown between Japan and the United States would be necessary? Question: Which Japanese Admiral felt it was necessary to go to war with the U.S.?
In an effort to discourage Japanese militarism, Western powers including Australia, the United States, Britain, and the Dutch government in exile, which controlled the petroleum-rich Dutch East Indies, stopped selling oil, iron ore, and steel to Japan, denying it the raw materials needed to continue its activities in China and French Indochina. In Japan, the government and nationalists viewed these embargos as acts of aggression; imported oil made up about 80% of domestic consumption, without which Japan's economy, let alone its military, would grind to a halt. The Japanese media, influenced by military propagandists,[nb 10] began to refer to the embargoes as the "ABCD ("American-British-Chinese-Dutch") encirclement" or "ABCD line".

Question: Why did Western powers stop selling resources to Japan? Question: What did The West do to disuade Japan in China and French Indochina? Question: Why was denying supplies important to the western countries? Question: How did Japan view Western embargos? Question: What percent of oil made up Japan's domestic consumption? Question: What were these embargoes called by the Japanese media? Question: What did the Japanese media refer to the embargoes as?
The Japanese leadership was aware that a total military victory in a traditional sense against the USA was impossible; the alternative would be negotiating for peace after their initial victories, which would recognize Japanese hegemony in Asia. In fact, the Imperial GHQ noted, should acceptable negotiations be reached with the Americans, the attacks were to be canceled—even if the order to attack had already been given. The Japanese leadership looked to base the conduct of the war against America on the historical experiences of the successful wars against China (1894–95) and Russia (1904–05), in both of which a strong continental power was defeated by reaching limited military objectives, not by total conquest.

Question: Did The Japanese believe they could defeate the U.S.? Question: What did the Japanese military leadership think the chances were of complete military victory ove the United States? Question: What would Japan accomplish by peace after their early victories? Question: What did Japan want recognised in planned peace negotiations after their initial victories? Question: If acceptable negotiations btween Japan and the United States were reached, what would be done regarding the attacks? Question: What was the conduct of the war against the United States based on? Question: What was Japan's strategic goal in attacking America?
In the early hours of 7 December (Hawaiian time), Japan launched a major surprise carrier-based air strike on Pearl Harbor without explicit warning, which crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet, leaving eight American battleships out of action, 188 American aircraft destroyed, and 2,403 American citizens dead. At the time of the attack, the U.S. was not officially at war anywhere in the world, which means that the people killed or property destroyed at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese attack had a non-combatant status.[nb 11] The Japanese had gambled that the United States, when faced with such a sudden and massive blow, would agree to a negotiated settlement and allow Japan free rein in Asia. This gamble did not pay off. American losses were less serious than initially thought: The American aircraft carriers, which would prove to be more important than battleships, were at sea, and vital naval infrastructure (fuel oil tanks, shipyard facilities, and a power station), submarine base, and signals intelligence units were unscathed. Japan's fallback strategy, relying on a war of attrition to make the U.S. come to terms, was beyond the IJN's capabilities.

Question: When did Japan launch the aattack on Pearl Harbor? Question: How many U.S. battleships were incapacitated in the Pearl Harbor attacks? Question: How many American battleships were put out of action in the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan? Question: How many aircraft did the United States lose in the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan? Question: How many Americans died in the Pearl Harbor attacks? Question: How many US citizens were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan? Question: Was America at war when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor? Question: Why did Japan attack America? Question: What were the most vital American ships at the time of the attack? Question: Where were the American aircraft carriers during the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan?
Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 800,000-member America First Committee vehemently opposed any American intervention in the European conflict, even as America sold military aid to Britain and the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program. Opposition to war in the U.S. vanished after the attack. On 8 December, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands declared war on Japan, followed by China and Australia the next day. Four days after Pearl Harbor, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declared war on the United States, drawing the country into a two-theater war. This is widely agreed to be a grand strategic blunder, as it abrogated the benefit Germany gained by Japan's distraction of the U.S. (predicted months before in a memo by Commander Arthur McCollum)[nb 12] and the reduction in aid to Britain, which both Congress and Hitler had managed to avoid during over a year of mutual provocation, which would otherwise have resulted.

Question: how many members did the America First Committee have? Question: What group was opposed to American involvement in the war in Europe? Question: What program allowed America to sell military supplies to Britain and the Soviet Union? Question: On what day did the U.S. and its allies declar war on Japan? Question: When did the United States declare war on Japan? Question: How long after the Pearl Harbor attacks did Germany and Italy declare war? Question: How many days after the attack on Pearl Harbor did Germany wait to declare war on the United States? Question: Was Germany's declaration of war with the U.S. considered to be sound strategy? Question: Who predicted Germany's declaration of war against the United States months before?
Following the Declaration by United Nations (the first official use of the term United Nations) on 1 January 1942, the Allied governments appointed the British General Sir Archibald Wavell to the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM), a supreme command for Allied forces in Southeast Asia. This gave Wavell nominal control of a huge force, albeit thinly spread over an area from Burma to the Philippines to northern Australia. Other areas, including India, Hawaii, and the rest of Australia remained under separate local commands. On 15 January Wavell moved to Bandung in Java to assume control of ABDACOM.

Question: What date was the first official use of the term United Nations? Question: Who was appointed to command the Allied forces in Southeast Asia in 1942? Question: How spread out were the Allied forces in Southeastern Asia? Question: When did General Wavell assume control of the Southheast Asia Allied forces? Question: Where did General Wavell command the Allied forces from?
In January, Japan invaded Burma, the Dutch East Indies, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and captured Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Rabaul. After being driven out of Malaya, Allied forces in Singapore attempted to resist the Japanese during the Battle of Singapore but surrendered to the Japanese on 15 February 1942; about 130,000 Indian, British, Australian and Dutch personnel became prisoners of war. The pace of conquest was rapid: Bali and Timor also fell in February. The rapid collapse of Allied resistance had left the "ABDA area" split in two. Wavell resigned from ABDACOM on 25 February, handing control of the ABDA Area to local commanders and returning to the post of Commander-in-Chief, India.

Question: What islands did Japan invade? Question: When did Allied forces surrender Singapore to the Japanese? Question: How many Allied prisoners did Japan take after the Battle of Singapore? Question: When did General Wavell resign as commander of the Allied forces of Southeastern Asia? Question: After Wavell resigned from ABDACOM, What post did he return to?
In Burma the British, under intense pressure, made a fighting retreat from Rangoon to the Indo-Burmese border. This cut the Burma Road which was the western Allies' supply line to the Chinese Nationalists. In March 1942, Chinese Expeditionary Force started to attack Japanese forces in northern Burma. On 16 April, 7,000 British soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division led by Sun Li-jen. Cooperation between the Chinese Nationalists and the Communists had waned from its zenith at the Battle of Wuhan, and the relationship between the two had gone sour as both attempted to expand their area of operations in occupied territories. Most of the Nationalist guerrilla areas were eventually overtaken by the Communists. On the other hand, some Nationalist units were deployed to blockade the Communists and not the Japanese. Furthermore, many of the forces of the Chinese Nationalists were warlords allied to Chiang Kai-Shek, but not directly under his command. "Of the 1,200,000 troops under Chiang's control, only 650,000 were directly controlled by his generals, and another 550,000 controlled by warlords who claimed loyalty to his government; the strongest force was the Szechuan army of 320,000 men. The defeat of this army would do much to end Chiang's power." The Japanese exploited this lack of unity to press ahead in their offensives.

Question: When did the Chinese attack Burma? Question: How many British soldiers were rescued by the Chinese 38th Division on April 16?? Question: Who led the rescue of British forces during the Battle of Yenangyaung? Question: How many of Chiang Kai-Shek's troops were controlled by warlords? Question: What was Chiang Kai-Shek's strongest army?
Two battle-hardened Australian divisions were steaming from the Mid-East for Singapore. Churchill wanted them diverted to Burma, but Curtin insisted on a return to Australia. In early 1942 elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed an invasion of Australia. The Japanese Army opposed the plan and it was rejected in favour of a policy of isolating Australia from the United States via blockade by advancing through the South Pacific. The Japanese decided upon a seaborne invasion of Port Moresby, capital of the Australian Territory of Papua which would put Northern Australia within range of Japanese bomber aircraft.

Question: How many Australian divisions steamed from the Mid-East for Singapore? Question: Where did Churchill want the Australian divisions bound for Singapore to be diverted to? Question: What Japanese group opposed an invasion of Australia? Question: What country did Japan isolate Australia from with a blockade? Question: What was the capital of Papua?
President Franklin Roosevelt ordered General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines to formulate a Pacific defence plan with Australia in March 1942. Curtin agreed to place Australian forces under the command of MacArthur who became Supreme Commander, South West Pacific. MacArthur moved his headquarters to Melbourne in March 1942 and American troops began massing in Australia. Enemy naval activity reached Sydney in late May 1942, when Japanese midget submarines launched a daring raid on Sydney Harbour. On 8 June 1942, two Japanese submarines briefly shelled Sydney's eastern suburbs and the city of Newcastle.

Question: Who ordered General MacArthur to make a defense plan with Australia? Question: When was General MacArthur ordered to make a defense plan with Australia? Question: Who was the Supreme Commander of the South West Allied forces? Question: Where was MacArthur's headquarters moved to in March of 1942? Question: How many Japanese submarines shelled Sydney on June 8, 1942?
In early 1942, the governments of smaller powers began to push for an inter-governmental Asia-Pacific war council, based in Washington, D.C.. A council was established in London, with a subsidiary body in Washington. However, the smaller powers continued to push for an American-based body. The Pacific War Council was formed in Washington, on 1 April 1942, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his key advisor Harry Hopkins, and representatives from Britain, China, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Canada. Representatives from India and the Philippines were later added. The council never had any direct operational control, and any decisions it made were referred to the U.S.-UK Combined Chiefs of Staff, which was also in Washington. Allied resistance, at first symbolic, gradually began to stiffen. Australian and Dutch forces led civilians in a prolonged guerilla campaign in Portuguese Timor.

Question: When was the Pacific War Council formed in Washingto D.C.? Question: What American president was a member of the Pacific War Council? Question: Who was President Roosevelt's key advisor? Question: Where was the U.S.-UK Combined Chiefs of Staff located? Question: Where was the Australian and Dutch guerilla campaign led?