Okayy. WWll was a HUGE event for everybody.
Japan recieved German territories from the Treay of Versallies. Japan wasnt really all that happy though because they wanted to expand their country more to China. They also werent too happy when a failure happened on the peacemakers part about the equalitym of every race.
To reach their goal of expanding, Japan took over the northern part of China, Manchuria(1931). Later invaded the rest of China. (1937). That would give them more resources for the people and more land. Germany and Japan had the same goals so they decided to team up and have an alliance with them. This had Japan part of the axis powers. Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Bulgaria were part of it.
Japan had a constitutional monarchyy with an emperor. The emperor at the time was Hirohito.Within his family were a lot of rulings. Alot of his family members before him ruled for centuries. If his grandfather should die, he would be next in line to rule the countryy.
124th emperor(came after his father).
He supported the invasion against manchuia and the war with China. But because he approved attacking Pearl Harbor, Japan would enter World War ll. \
His goals were to go into China and Asia with out the United states and Briatain interferring. <--- this is why he bombed pearl harbor because he didnt want them messing with his expanding goals. Well the bombing got the U.S. involved with the war.
Japan mainly wanted to expand and get resources. That plan didnt fall through too well.
And sometimes the military wouldnt even listen to hirohito. He would want to stop and the military would be getting ready to go into war. Sometimes they even tried to kill the him. The military had too much power.
Alliances: Germany.
Buildings, cities, industries, transporation,..everything was pretty much destroyed. Japan really messed up. everything went to ruins mainly because of the surprise attack on pearl harbor.
Hirohito, after the war, alowly lost control over everythingg. military freaking out. suicides happening. and unfortuantley, japan lost a lot of land. land that they had before the war started.
They didnt want the U.S. to invade but yet they bombed pearl harbor....hmm. They had to know it wasnt gonn abe that simple..
Sources:
http://www.freewebs.com/wwtwoproject/thetreatyofversailles.htm
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