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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.
Tuesday-
-Soviet Invasion on Manchuria - August 8th 1945
- Japan surrendered bam bam bam
- China incident- July 1937
- China is invaded by Japan, japan did very well, took some costal cities and got good chunk of land
-Rape of Nanking Late- 1937 early 1938
- a MASS killing of Chinese up to 300,000
-Mass raping of chinese women and girls 20,000
-Mass looting and arson
- Shooting, stabbing, decapitation, drowning, burning, punching body and more also happened
- There was a war crimes trial after the war to try Japanese soilders for particpiation
-Overall throughout WWII Japan killed almost 6,000,000 people, chinese, indonesians, koreans, filipinos, indochinese, western prisnorers of war etc
-Emperor Hirohito
-Became emperor in 1926 and ruled until his death in 1989
-The emperor at the time was seen as a god, and therefore was above poltics
- Was the only person powerful enough to completly surrender to the allied powers
- Hirohito did give the ok to attack pearl harbor
- All political power went to elected representatives
- Hirohito was not charged as a war criminal because US feared the people would revolt and push Japan to the Soviet Side
-Hideki Tojo
- Wednesday
-Became prime minister in October 1941 just two months before the Pearl Harbor Attack
-Tojos powers increased but never level of Hitler or Stalin
- Ruled in the name of the emperor
- Supported Japanese expansion into China and other places in Asia
- Supported the alliance with Germany and Italy
- Attempt dipolmacy with the us but ultimately ordered Pearl Harbor attack
- Tojo was forced out in 1944
- Afters japans surrender in 1945 Tojo commited suicide but failed
- Evenutally, Tojo was tried and hanged as a war criminal in 1948
- At his trail his personal reposnibility for the war and attempted to deflect attetion from the emperor
- The United States in WWII
- Main Powers Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, China, France
- Australia, Canada, India - other big ones
- US after WWI
- US Never the Treaty of Versailles
- Wilson Democrat vs congress Republican controlled
- Join the league of Nations or go back to isolationism?
- Republican Warren Harding won the 1920 Presidential election with a promise Return to normalacy
- THE US went back to focusing on America
-The US did sign the Kellogg Briand Pact
-Neautrality Acts were passed by the US in the 1930's in response to the issues in Europe and Asia that led to world war 2
- Not going to make same mistakes
- US had very strong history of isolationism
-America First Comitee- focus on America first don't focus on other countries, be neautral
- Neutrality Act of 1935- stop trading with countries at War
- Neutrality Act of 1936- stop loaning money to countries of war
- Neuatrality act of 1937- Cash and Carry system- weapons not included
- Neutrality Act of 1939- Cash and Carry System- weapons included
-Thursday-
-Quarantine Speech- 1937
- Panay Incident- December 1937
- American gunboat attacked on river in China by Japan
- 3 US Troops killed, 45 wounded
- Japan said it was an accident, apolgozied and paid Us money
- Worsended relationship between US and Japan
-Bases for destroyer
- Passed in September 1940 between the US and Great Britain
- Fifty US destroyers were given to great britain in exchange for land rights on British Colonies for naval or air base purposes
-End of US Neutrality Lend Lease Act
- The end of neutrality for the US came with the Lend Lease Act passed in March 1941
- This act allowed the US to sell, lend or give war materials to nations the US wanted to support
- US gave 50 billion to allied nations throughout the war
- Great Britain over a billion, China and Soviet Union
-Selective and Training and Service Act
- Passed in September 1940 and ended in 1947
- Required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register for the draft
- Extended to all men aged 18 to 45 once entered war
- First peacetime draft in US history
-How did the draft work?
- Local draft boards were set up from coast to coast
- Each male registered was given a number between 1-7,836
- The capsules were drawn from the bowl one by one to establish draft order
- IF your number was chosen you were chosen and your part is in the US military
-Atlantic Charter
- Signed in August 1941 between the US and Great Britain
- Defined the allied goals for the post war world
-The Road to Pearl Harbor
-Admiral Yamamoto- Had the plan of attack of pearl harbor
- December 7th 1941 Sunday 7:40 AM and 8:50 AM
-Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Terriotry
- Battle results Japanese major victory 2 Us declararition of war on Japan 3) Germany and Italy declare war on US 4( Us declares war on germany and italy
- All eight US Navy battleships were damaged, they sunk half of them
- 2402 dead, 1282 wounded
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