Monday- Japans Presentation
Japan-
- Alliances-
- Part of the Axis Alliance
- Ultimate goal of the alliance was domination
- Axis Leaders- Tojo Hideki and Hirohito
- Cost of the War-
- Approximately- 56 billion dollars
- In 2005 that would be almost 600 trillion dollars
- Lives lost
- Casualties-
- 2,100,000 military deaths and 1,00,000 civilian deaths due to bombing
- Goals during WW2-
- Domination of Asia
- Natural Resources
- Trade with the US stopped and that lead to Japan try to invade with China
- Japanese Home front-
- Home front was not very strong
- Behind technologically
- Did not have financial strength Illiterate
- Unorganized
- Food had to be rationed because they weren't trading with other countries
- Deteriorating health and living conditions
- Bombing resulting in hundreds of deaths
- Propaganda-
- Government spent more time focused on propaganda than the actual war
- Battle Strategies-
- Invade and defend
- If any of the Japens military men were to surrender or run they would shoot them selves
- Manchuria-
- Invaded in 1931
- Japan wanted to expand but then Russia got in and pushed them out
- Sino Japanese War-
- The second one imperialist policy
- It was Japan trying to invade china again
- goal was resources
- Pearl Harbor-
- December 1941
- Japan bombs US naval base
- they bombed us to keep us out of the war- it was to try to stop our naval power so we couldn't invade their lands, but it didn't work at all
- Areas Controlled by Japan during WW2-
- Several regions of China
- French indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos)
- Hong Kong
- Thailand
- Brithish New Guinea
- Philippines
- Guam
- Dutch East Indies
- Portuguese
- Malaya
- Andaman and Nicobar islands
- Staits Settlements
- Kingdom of Sarawak
- Brunei
- North Borneo
- Nauru
- Imphal
- Wake Island
- Gilbert and Ellice Islands
- Christmas Island
- Attu and Kiska Islands
- Areas Attacked but not conquered-
- Air raids on Australia:
- Broome
- Darwin
- Newcastle
- Sydney
- British Columbia (Canada)
- Kohima and Manipur (India)
- Colombo and Trincomalee
- Dornod
- United States
- Santa Barbara (California)
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)
- Midway Atoll
- Fort Stevens (Oregon)
- Japan in the 1920's-
- Joined the League on Nations
- Signed the 4,5 and 9 power pacts
- Signed the Kellogg- Briand Pact
- Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931
- Japan needed raw materials to support their growing populations and their growing business
- Manchuria had coal, oil, iron ore and many other things that Japan needed
- Japanese Invasion of Manchuria-
- The League of Nations condemned the action but could not enforce its authority as it had no military force
- The message sent to aggressive countries was that a major power could get away with using force because Great Britain and France didn't want war
- Japan dropped out of the League of Nations
- China Incident- July 1937
- Rape of Nanking- Late 1937-Early 1938
- A mass killing of Chinese people (up to 300,000)
- Mass raping of Chinese women and girls
- Mass looting and arson
- Some in Japan have denied that the military killed civilians for no reasons
- Still causes tension between the two countries today
- There were war crimes trial after the war to try Japanese soldiers for participation
- Quarantine Speech- 1937
- Panay Incident- December 1937
- American gunboat attacked on river in china by Japan
- 3 US troops died and 45 wounded
- Japan said it was a accident and thought it was a Chinese boat
- Worsened US- Japanese relations
- Tripartite Pact is singed forming Axis Powers- 1940
- Admiral Yamamoto came up with the Pearl Harbor attack plan
- Plan of Pearl Harbor
- Date- December 7, 1941 Sunday- 7:40 am and 8:50 am
- Location pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory
- War Results- 1) Japanese major victory 2) US Deceleration of War on Japan 3) Germany and Italy Declared war on the US 4) US Declares War on Germany and Italy
- Deaths and Casualties 1) 2,402 killed and 1282 wounded
- All eight US navy battleships were damaged and 4 destroyed Three cruisers and damaged
- Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor-
- After Japan invaded French Indochina we stopped trading with Japan
- Japan signed the Soviet Japanese Neutrality Pact Arpil 1941
- Japan realized they needed US trade to be successful in the war
- Plan backfired instead Japan awoke a sleeping giant
- December 8th, 1941 last time that we have ever declared war on a country
- FDR's War Message-
- Pearl Harbor was not the only area Japan attacked on December 7th
- Yesterday the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya
- Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong
- Japan attacked Guam
- Philippine Islands, Wake Island, and Midway Islands
- Bataan Death March- 10,000 Filipinos died and 650 Americans died during the march
- Doolittle's Raid- April, 1942-
- Battle of Coral Sea- First Turing Point in Pacific
- Battle of Midway- June 1942- Major Turing Point in Pacific
- Battle of leyte Gulf- Philippines
- Island hopped
- MacArthur's Return to the Philippines
- Iwo Jima- February-March, 1945
- 6,821 US deaths at Iwo Jima
- Battle of Okinawa- April-June, 1945
- Summer 1945- preparing for the invasion of Japan
- operation Downfall
- Planned for October 1945
- Estimated to have over 1 million casualties
- Estimated to have 267,000 deaths
- instead we dropped the atomic bomb
- Battle of Okinawa- April- June, 1945
- had to go on shore and attack the island
- The Manhattan Project
- 1939-1945
- B-29 super for trace was designed to dropped the bomb on Japan
- Little Boy was dropped Hiroshima and was the littler bomb
- Nagasaki was the other city that we dropped a bomb o n
- Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki and the Bockscar was the plane who carried the bomb
- VJ Day
- August 14/15, 1945(official UK)
- September 2,1945(official for US)
- When Japan officially signed on the USS Missouri
- Potsdam Conference July, 1945
- On July 26th the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and China issued a potsdam Decleration
- Announced the terms for Japan's surrender
- Dismantle the current government of Japan
- The Allies(US) will occupy Japan
- Japan will consist only of the major islands (Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku) It will lose all territory gained in ww2 and years leading up to it.
- Japanese military forces will be disarmed and allowed to return home
- There will be war crimes trail for the atrocities committed by Japan throughout ww2
- Democracy will be promoted as well as Freedom of speech, religion, and of thought, as well as respect for fundamental human rights
- Japan will be allowed to have industry so they can make money to pay reparations. World trade will also be enabled at some point
- Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952) will end once Japan accomplishes all the above points
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