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Japan-
Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.
1926 The emperor taisho died and Hirohito came to power. Japan withdraws troops from china. signs London naval treaty regulating submarines.
Washington Naval treaty- Major powers would not have huge navies.
Japan leaves the league of nations
Japan start rebuilding not following the treaty's.
Pa-nay incident- They take down a U.S. ship and say sorry thought it was Chinese and give us money for it.
Pearl Harbor- Was supposed to take set us back and make us not go into the war but all it dad was wake a sleeping giant and that is why the lost the war.
Battle of midway- We ddi massive damage to Japanese navy. It was our first real win.
-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc
When they fought in china they wanted land and recourse. Pearl harbor is to attack and weaken us. Canada declared war on Japan a couple of hours prior to this. It was not near as successful as they wanted it to be they awoken a sleeping giant. Japan did not have a lot of resources and depended don trade.
They would capture people and use them as slave labor. The land space was becoming less and less.
-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII
Hirohito- He had use of chemical and biological weapons. Did not get penalized for it as other generals took the blame.
-background
-how they came to power
-how they lost power
-Discuss the impact of their Homefront and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war
They made sure the people wanted propaganda than really focusing on the war. Wanted to get the birth rate up. Millions of people died. Bombed over 65 cities. They made it seem like Japan was on top. They made people think that japan is better than anybody else.
They used Pearl Harbor as propaganda to get people to volunteer for the war. Also made people buy war bombs.
Why did they attack us? Japan invaded china and we gave them fuel to help them fuel there war machine. Since japan had signed a non aggression pack with soviet union they did not have to worry about fighting them as well as us. So we did not trade with them so they hit us with a surprise attack.
-Discuss major battle strategies
Joined Germany and Italy. Toojk over main islands in the pacific. Signed a lot of treaty's with axis powers to be safe. They built up more bases on these islands.
-Discuss major battles that the country was involved in
Pearl Harbor- They had like 5 ships go down. They killed over 1500 in one ship of the U.S. On the Islands they had a system of tunnels that were very complex and hard to maneuver. Which helped them fight in small islands.
-Discuss other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war
Isoroku- Attended Harvard and was behind the attack of Pearl Harbor. He died when is plane got shot down by the U.S.
Kantaro Suzuki- Japanese Navy ided of natural causes.
Nagumo- Commander of a carrier battle group. Committed suicide by the battle of Saipan.
-Discuss why they won or lost the war
Attacked Pearl Harbor. Brought america into the war. Atomic bomb. Did not have enough men.
-Discuss the impact WWII had on the country
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