Monday: No school
Tuesday: Notes
- Japan continued
- Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
- The League of Nations condemned the action but could not enforce its authority as it had no military force
- The messages sent to aggressive countries was that a major power could get away with using force because GB and France didnt want war
- Japan dropped out of League of Nations shortly after invasion
- Rape of Nanking
- Late 1937- Early 1938
- 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 reason
- Still causes tension between the two countries today
- There was a war crimes trial after the war to try Japanese soldiers for participation
- Overall, throughout WWII, Japan killed almost 6 million people-- Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, Indochinese, Western prisoners of war
- Panay Incident
- American gunboat attacked on river in Chine bu Japan
- 3 US troops killed, 45 injured
- Japan said it was an accident
- Soviet- Japanese Neutrality Pact
- The USSR and Japan signed an agreement to not fight one another in April, 1941
- Japan considered breaking this once Germany invaded the USSR in June, 1941, but did not
- The USSR broke this treaty when they declared war on Japan in August 9, 1945
- Japanese Leaders
- Hideki Tojo
- Emperor Hirohito
- Basics of Pearl Harbor Attacks
- December 7th, 1941
- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory
- War results
- Japanese victory
- US declares war on Japan
- Germany and Italy declare war on US
- US declares war on Germany and Italy
- Battle results
- All 8 US Navy battleships were damaged, four being sunk
- Three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft ship and one minelayer ship were sank or damaged
- 188 US aircraft were destroyed
- Deaths/ Causalities
- 2,402 killed
- 1,282 wounded
- Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor
- Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940, US stopped trading oil with Japan
- Japan signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in April, 1941 guaranteeing the Japan and USSR would not go to war
- Japan realized they needed US trade to be successful in war
- Only way to force US hand was to hit them hard in surprise attacked forcing them out of war
- Japan knew this plan was a huge risk but thought it was the only way to defeat US
- Plan backfired
- Preparing for the Invasion of Japan
- Summer 1945
- Operation downfall
- Planned for October
- Estimated to have over 1 million causalities
- Estimated to have 267,000 deaths
- Manhattan Project
- 1939-1945
- Trinity Test
- July 16, 1945
Wednesday: Notes
Thursday: Notes
Friday: Notes
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