Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation.
Sent 2: By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity.
Sent 3: Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers.
Sent 4: Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed.
Sent 5: Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Sent 6: Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed.
Sent 7: Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomeratesa dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking.
Sent 8: These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures.
Sent 9: Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals.
Sent 10: They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America.
Sent 11: After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances.
Sent 12: In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Sent 13: And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists.
Sent 14: By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton.
Sent 15: Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West.
Sent 16: Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France.
Sent 17: The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies.
Sent 18: The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war.
Question: Why did japan occupy Manchuria in 1931?.

Answer: Japan believed it needed the territory to buffer against Russian advances.

Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Durer opened his own workshop (being married was a requirement for this).
Sent 2: Over the next five years his style increasingly integrated Italian influences into underlying Northern forms.
Sent 3: Durer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.
Sent 4: His best works in the first years of the workshop were his woodcut prints, mostly religious, but including secular scenes such as The Men's Bath House (ca.
Sent 5: 1496).
Sent 6: These were larger and more finely cut than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
Sent 7: It is now thought unlikely that Durer cut any of the woodblocks himself; this task would have been performed by a specialist craftsman.
Sent 8: However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
Sent 9: Durer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.
Sent 10: Either way, his drawings were destroyed during the cutting of the block.
Question: Durer's workshop scene "The Men's Bathhouse" was established in what year.

Answer: 1496.

Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Fossils give clues about major geological events.
Sent 2: Fossils can also give clues about past climates.
Sent 3: Fossils of ocean animals on the top of a mountain?
Sent 4: Ocean animals have been found on the Earths tallest mountain.
Sent 5: Its hard to believe, but it is true.
Sent 6: These fossils were found at the top of Mt. Everest.
Sent 7: Mt. Everest is the highest mountain on Earth.
Sent 8: These fossils showed that this entire area was once at the bottom of a sea.
Sent 9: It can only mean that Mt. Everest was uplifted.
Sent 10: In fact, the entire Himalaya mountain range was raised.
Sent 11: It was forced up from the collision of two continents.
Sent 12: Fossils of plants are found in Antarctica.
Sent 13: Now, Antarctica is almost completely covered with ice.
Sent 14: Plants do not grow in Antarctica.
Sent 15: According to fossils, they once did.
Sent 16: This means that Antarctica was once much warmer than it is now.
Sent 17: These fossils tell us about Antarcticas past climate.
Question: How do we know that Antarctica used to be warm?.

Answer:
Plant fossils were found there.