The excuse used by Japan to provoke the Manchurian Incident in 1931 was
a. a riot by the Chinese against Japanese presence.
b. the need to declare a war on drugs against China's opium trade.
c. an explosion on a railway track.
d. that the Chinese were allying with Russia, and Japan wanted to prevent a recurrence of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.
e. that China threatened Japanese imperial holdings in Korea.
ANSWER:
c
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