The US hoped to avoid deeper involvement in China by
a. allowing Stalin to act in an advisory capacity to Chiang kai-Shek.
b. negotiating an arrangement between Chiang and Mao.
c. maintaining a significant military presence in neutralized Japan to intimidate both sides of the Chinese Civil War.
d. relying on NATO and the United Nations to arbitrate the situation.
e. reluctantly endorsing Mao but not providing any support in hopes of appeasing Communist Russia.
Question 2
At the Yalta Conference, what was Stalin promised in exchange for the Soviet Union entering the war against Japan?
a. Significant influence over China as long as he did not intervene in Hong Kong.
b. Preeminent interests in Manchuria as long as he agreed not to assist Communist China.
c. A division of the interests in the breakup of the Japanese Empire.
d. Sakhalin Island north of Japan, on the Kamchatka peninsula
e. Re-extension of Soviet placement in Port Arthur on the Korean peninsula with a promise to remain out of the Chinese Civil War.