The graphic organizer includes facts about Germany and Japan. Column A: Germany Column B: Japan Germany annexed Austria and the Sudetenland. Japan expended into Manchuria between 1930 and 1939. A student created this organizer for a document-based essay on the expansion of totalitarian states. Which fact could be added to Column B?

Column B lists Japan’s territorial expansion. Japan invaded Manchuria, a region in northeastern China, in 1931, so “Japan’s invasion of northeastern China” adds a fact that fits the column. The other choices concern propaganda, historical leaders, or government rather than territorial expansion.

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