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Japan in WW2
- Be the dominant power in Asia
-Revive the Japanese ecnonomy from depression
- Take over areas of Asia to get resources
-Create the Greater East Asia Co- Prospierty Sphere
-Promoted the cultral and ecnomic unity of East asians
-Protect the people of asia from Western Imperalistic powers
- Areas controlled by Japan during WWII
- Several regions in China, French Indochina, Hong Kong, Thailand, British New Guinea, Phillipines, Guam, Dutch East Indies, Portuguese Timor, Malaya
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Straits Settlements, Kingdom of Sarwak, Brunei, North Borneo, Nauru, Imphal, Wake Island, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Christmas Islands, Attu and Kiska Islands
- Areas attacked but never conquered
Australia, Candada, India, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, UNITED STATES
-Japan in the Mid 1800's to early 1900's
- US commodore Matthew Perry sialed to japan in 1853-1854 and forced Japan to open its ports to western nations
- Japan had been extremely isolationist for hundred of years
- Japan realized they needed to become like the West so the west didn't take them over
- First Sino-Japanese War
- Japan won and gained control of Korea and Taiwan
- They defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905
- This made Japan the major power in Asia, replacing Russia
- Japan fought for the allies in WWI
- Took over many German colonies and intrests in Asia and extended their control in China
- Felt disrespected and the Paris Peace Confrence as the racial equality proposal they proposed did not pass
-Joined the League of Nations
- Signed the 4,5,9 Power Pacts
-4 Power Pact- US, GB, France and Japan would respect each others possessions in the Pacfic
- Signed the Kellogg Briand Pact
- The Great depression had a negative impact on Japan
-Japanese Invasion of Manchuria- 1931
- They need essential raw materials, 100 million people in their population, very industrialazed
- used as a base to invade China
-Japan dropped out of the League of Nations shortly after the Invasion
-Soviet-Japanese Border War
-Fought between Japan and Manchiria and the Soviet Union and Monogolia from 1932-1939
- STarted the year after Japan took over Manchuria as Japan started looking into Societ controlled areas in Monogolia
- The war ended in 1939 when the Soviets and Monogolians defeated the Japanese
- This soon resulted in the Soviet Japanrse Neautrality pact
- The USSR and Japan signed an agreement to not fight one other in April 1941
- Japan considered breaking this once Germany invaded the USSR in June, 1941 but did not
-On August 8th 1945 the USSR declared war on Japan breaking the Neautrality Pact
- This was two days after the Hiroshima atomic bomb dropping one day before Nagaski bombing
- Stalin had promised in early 1945 that he woild declare war on Japan once Germany was defeated May 8 1945
- Over one million soilders invaded Japanese controlled Manchuria and were pushed back an suffered huge casualties
- Caught of gaurd Hiroshima bombing japan surrendered.
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