Across
- 2. - Region invaded by Japan in 1931, sparking tension
- 4. - Atrocity involving mass murder and assault of civilians by Japanese forces
- 9. - Nation whose independence from China was declared in 1895
- 11. - Japanese army responsible for occupying Manchuria
- 13. - Treaty that ended the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895
- 14. - Symbolic Japanese battleship name used in propaganda during the war
- 17. - Japanese attack that expanded WWII into the Pacific theater
- 18. - Group that China joined in WWII after 1941
- 19. - City where the staged railway explosion took place in 1931
- 20. - Chinese dynasty defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War
- 21. - Last emperor of China, installed by Japan to lead puppet state of Manchukuo
Down
- 1. - City where Japanese troops committed a brutal massacre in 1937
- 3. - Chinese Nationalist leader during the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 5. - 1937 clash that triggered the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 6. - Supply route used by the Allies to aid China during WWII
- 7. - 1937 agreement where USSR promised not to attack China
- 8. - League of Nations investigation that condemned Japan’s actions in Manchuria
- 10. - Japan’s staged explosion used as an excuse to invade Manchuria
- 12. - Puppet state set up by Japan in Manchuria
- 15. - Island ceded to Japan after the First Sino-Japanese War
- 16. - Province targeted in a Japanese retaliation campaign in 1942
