Compare the situations leading up to the invasions of China and Poland.
A. China and Poland were prepared to fight their invaders.
B. China and Poland received foreign aid against potential invasion.
C. Japan and Germany were at war with China and Poland.
D. Japan and Germany invaded other countries before invading China and Poland.
C. Japan and Germany were at war with China and Poland.
D. Japan and Germany invaded other countries before invading China and Poland.
These two options are what best describe the situations leading up to the invasions of China and Poland. Both Japan and Germany had aggressive expansionist policies leading them to invade other countries before eventually targeting China and Poland. In the case of Japan, they had already invaded Manchuria in 1931 and were engaged in the Second Sino-Japanese War by the time they invaded the rest of China in 1937. Likewise, Germany had already invaded countries such as Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland before launching their full-scale invasion of Poland in 1939.