Chapter 11 Self Quiz

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. What was the purpose of Japan returning to the gold standard in 1930?

Enable zaibatsu to sell yen and buy dollars correct incorrect

Bring downward pressure on prices of domestic goods correct incorrect

Create a stable environment for trade and investment at a fixed exchange rate for the yen correct incorrect

Force the West to follow suit and join the gold standard correct incorrect

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. Which of the following groups particularly struggled during the depression of 1929-1931?

Small business owners correct incorrect

Factory Workers correct incorrect

Small land holders correct incorrect

All of the above groups correct incorrect

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. Which cultural quality did the 'chimney man' manipulate in order to force a compromise from his employers?

Respect for the emperor correct incorrect

A fear of conflict correct incorrect

A desire for productive labor correct incorrect

Respect for private property correct incorrect

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. Why were authorities opposed to the rising numbers of cafe waitresses in the 1920s and 1930s?

They believed they were politically radical correct incorrect

They were seen as threatening social mores through their sexuality correct incorrect

They did not pay taxes correct incorrect

They were driving prostitutes out of business. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT seen as part of Japan's 'unprecedented crisis' of the late 1920s?

Sexual liberation correct incorrect

Student activism correct incorrect

Labor protests correct incorrect

Tension with the USSR (Soviet Union) correct incorrect

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. What was the Kwantung Army?

A rebel group who staged the Taiwan Expedition in 1874 correct incorrect

A Japanese constabulary force protecting investments in Shanghai correct incorrect

An army with the mission to protect Japan's railway zone in Manchuria correct incorrect

A Chinese warlord force active in northern China correct incorrect

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. The 1930 re-negotiation of the naval treaty between Britain, the US, and Japan resulted in...

Japan gaining permission to expand their navy correct incorrect

The Minseito government winning re-election correct incorrect

The army elite becoming angered by investment in the navy correct incorrect

The anti-treaty 'fleet wing' came to dominate that navy correct incorrect

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. Why did Ishiwara Kanji believe Japan had to take over Manchuria?

To gain resources for an inevitable war with the US correct incorrect

To usher in the apocalypse correct incorrect

To secure access to Chinese labor correct incorrect

To undermine the warlord Zhang Zuolin correct incorrect

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. Ugaki Kazushige, Ishiwara Kanji, and radical students all blamed which ideology for Japan's ongoing crises of the late 1920s and early 1930s?

Anarchistl correct incorrect

Nationalist correct incorrect

Communist correct incorrect

Capitalist correct incorrect

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. What was the general reaction in Japan to the takeover of Manchuria?

Joy and celebration correct incorrect

Anger at the expenditure of resources correct incorrect

Disapproval and protests correct incorrect

Ambivalence correct incorrect

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. What was 'Manchukuo'?

The traditional Chinese name for Manchuria correct incorrect

The name for the Japanese client state established in Manchuria correct incorrect

The Kwantung Army's base in Jehol/Rehe correct incorrect

The Japanese name for Manchurians correct incorrect

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. What was the primary vision of planners for Manchukuo's role in the Japanese empire?

It would be a source of immigrants to boost Japan's home economy correct incorrect

It would provide access to Russia's markets correct incorrect

It would provide the empire with resources correct incorrect

It would provide training grounds for the army. correct incorrect

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. Which theory of John Meynard Keynes did Takahashi Korekiyo prove even before Keynes published his book explaining it?

That governments spending money during a depression can revive the economy correct incorrect

That capitalism inevitably resulted in the rise of monopolies and monopsonies correct incorrect

That Westerners building tariff walls would ultimately undermine the Japanese imperial project correct incorrect

That deficit spending would weaken the economy correct incorrect

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. The formation of the Industrial Rationalization Bureau was symbolic of which process in the Japanese economy in the 1930s?

The increasing influence of zaibatsu correct incorrect

The increasing control of bureaucrats correct incorrect

The increasing intervention of the navy correct incorrect

The increasing level of liquid capital correct incorrect

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. Which was behind the rise of the 'new zaibatsu'?

The Seiyûkai party correct incorrect

The old zaibatsu correct incorrect

The Japanese military correct incorrect

Japanese residents in Korea correct incorrect

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. Which of the following policies were NOT suggested as part of rural revitalization in the 1930s?

Integrating religious festivals into yearly planting cycles correct incorrect

Diversifying the kinds of crops planted correct incorrect

Long-term agricultural planning correct incorrect

Adopting more scientific farm management systems correct incorrect

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. Why are "patriotic discussion councils" created in workplaces from 1937 on regarded as having roots in Nazi policy?

Because they were explicitly identified as such by the Japanese government correct incorrect

Because German advisors helped draw up plans for them in 1936 correct incorrect

Because like the Nazi Labor Front, they emphasized classless national harmony and unity correct incorrect

Because they were labeled 'anti-fascist fronts' correct incorrect

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. When did Japan enact universal male suffrage?

1925 correct incorrect

1932 correct incorrect

1937 correct incorrect

1939 correct incorrect

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. What occured on February 26, 1936?

The Imperial Way and Control factions formed correct incorrect

Nagata Tetsuzan was assassinated correct incorrect

Tojo Hideki became leader of the Control Faction correct incorrect

The Imperial Way faction attempted a coup in central Tokyo correct incorrect

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. Which of the following ideologies did NOT gain greater legitimacy in Japan in the 1930s?

Emperor worship correct incorrect

Authoritarianism correct incorrect

Militarism correct incorrect

Capitalism correct incorrect