WW2 asia/Japanese expansion

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Japanese expansion gains

Manchuria, port arthur, korea, taiwan

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US neutrality act becomes…

Land-lease act

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Pearl Harbour

1941

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Japanese victories

Philippines, Guam, Wake island, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma

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Greater asia co-prosperity sphere

1940-45

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Battle of coral sea (code breaking)

1942

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battle of midway (US offensive)

1942

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Guadalcanal (island hopping)

1942

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Operation cartwheel

Isolate Japanese troops

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Iwo Jima

1945

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Iwo Jima Japanese defense tactics

18km hidden tunnel

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Okinawa

took 3 months instead of 1

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Aircraft carrier comparisons

USA 160 vs 16

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US submarines by 1944

150

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Code breaking example

Midway & Coral sea 1942

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Island hopping example

Guadalcanal

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WW2

1939-45

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Weakness Japanese government in war production

Never organized industry to maximize production, women discouraged, exploited co-prosperity sphere

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US war industry employees by 1945

6 million

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Resistance groups against Japan led to..

Groups to retain control, reducing numbers in battle

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Washington Treaties demonstrated..

Japanese international cooperation

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Dark Valley

1932

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Koda-ha/Imperial Way Faction

Military dictatorship with USSR as enemy

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Tosei-ha/control faction

USSR as ally

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May 15th incident caused by…

destabilisation of army

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Second sino-japanese war

1937-41

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Rape of Nanjing

1937

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Three power pact

Pact with germany, italy and japan

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Historian Hasegawa (Japan)

Oil embargo forced Japan into war

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US historians on Japan

Japan pursued aggressive and expansionist foreign policy

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Historian Pyle (Japan)

Nationalism drove war sentiment to preserve Japanese political order

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US isolationism

Neutrality Act & non-recognition doctrine

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US isolationism contradicted by…

Oil exports and silk imports

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US policies to japan 1938

Trade embargo on Japan & aid to China instead