Monday - Japan Presentation
Tuesday - Expanding on Japan
5 areas Japan controlled during WW2 : Thailand, Philippines, Guam, Malaya, Hong Kong
5 areas attacked but never conquered in WW2 : Australia, United States, Canada, India, Mongolia
Joined the League of Nations
Signed the 4th Power Pact - respect each other's possessions in the Pacific
Signed the 5th Power Pact - Would limit naval size
Signed the 9th Power Pact
Signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact - Not to use war to settle disputes
Japan invaded Manchuria due to it's raw materials since the high teriffs from the Great Depression
League of Nations can't do anything to stop Japan
Japan dropped out of the League of Nations
Japan starts invade the rest of China
Panay Incident - American gunboat attacked on river in China by Japan, Japan said it was an accident, apologized and paid the U.S.
Emperor Hirohito - Emperor at the time of the war
Hideki Tojo - General that had final say in the attack of Pearl Harbor
Yamamoto - only one that was against the Pearl Harbor attack
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to keep the U.S. out of the war
3 strikes were planned for Pearl Harbor, but only 2 were carried out...the last one was canceled
December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor attack
December 8, 1941 - Declare War
Wednesday -
Rape of Nanking was a mass killing
Japan “awoke a sleeping giant” by attacking the U.S.
Battle of Midway was a huge victory for the U.S.
Thursday -
Operation Downfall - thought to be the invasion of Japan
Operation Downfall never happened due to the atomic bombs
Hiroshima - little boy (uranium atom bomb)
Nagasaki - fat man (plutonium atomic bomb)
Potsdam Declaration - Dismantle the current government of Japan, the Allies (US) will occupy Japan, Loose all the territory they conquered in WW2, Japanese military disarmed and allowed to return home, There were war crime trials for the atrocities committed by Japan throughout WW2
Friday - Test
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