Question 1
The Great East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was
a. America's promise to improve the living standards of the peoples of China, Japan, and elsewhere.
b. Japan's declaration that East Asia would become a self-sufficient economic community.
c. the promise by Great Britain that India would be given its independence.
d. China's attempt to replace capitalism with communism.
e. the United Nations' attempt to rebuilt Japan after World War II.
Question 2
Under Japan's New Order in Asia
a. the Japanese government and military sincerely intended to liberate their fellow Asians from the burdens of Western colonialism and grant them complete independence.
b. Japanese treatment of conquered Asian peoples was intensely brutal in many cases.
c. Asian nationalists generally sided with the Japanese.
d. the Japanese were held in high regard by the conquered peoples of Asia.
e. Japan hoped to sell raw materials to conquered Asian lands to raise money for its military.
Simian statue at a Buddhist shrine in Tokyo, Japan
A nineteenth-century Japanese portrait of Commodore Matthew Perry, who “opened up” Japan in 1854.
Buddha (Amida), Japan.
Social Development in Central Asia
The order of gene transfer in four Hfr strains
Okinawa, Japan