Today Japan presented.
Japan had a constitional Monarchy
The komintern worked to estblish a communist party in japan.
The Komintern was a political part that worked to infiltrate goverments and set up communist goals.
Emperor Hirohito.
Hirohito was born the first son of crown prince Yoshihito.
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo was appointed the Army Minister in 1941
He strongly supported joining with Italy and Germany.
Hiroshito wanted to appoint a new prime minister that had strong ties to the military.
Japan wanted to get an easy supply of rescources becouse they were on an island.
They wanted to cripple the united states becouse they hd the navy that could defeat them.
Manchuria was to be taken as a buffer against the soviet Union.
The stradegy for there military was that they had to attack Pearl Harbor they began to take Malaya, the
Netherlands, The Philippines, Wake Islands, Guam and many more.
Japan sided with the Axis Powers.
They began invading and seizing manchuria in 1931 and withdrew from the league of nations.
They took the entire coast of china.
After the battle of Midway against the us they slowly began losing islands.
On August 6 1945 the US dropped the atomic bomb.
Two days later the soviet Union joined the war against Japan.
The next day the second bomb was dropped and Hirohito surrendered 5 days later after surveying the damage.
They sided with the axis powers
Their allies were Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Bulgaria.
One of the biggest affects of the war was the casualties and the atomic bombs
Nearly all of the building within a mile were destroyed and 90% of the people withink a half mile were killed
Radiation sickness continued to elevate deaths.
On september 2 japan officially signed a surrender treaty aboard the USS Misouri.
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