Power and Authority Italy and Japan

Japan - 1919

TOV without desired Racial Equality Clause

Japan - 1925

Peace Preservation Laws creates the Tokku to suppress subversive ideologies
66,000 arrests between 1928-1941

Japan - 1930

London Naval Treaty

Japan - 1930-31

Showa depression

significant deflation 10% each year

2 million unemployed

Japan 1931

Mukden incident used to justify invasion of Manchuria

Japan 1932

Civilian PM Tsuyoshi assassinated by junior naval officers

Adm. Saito appointed as replacement

Japan 1934

Amau Doctrine claims all of Asia as a Japanese sphere of influence

Japan 1936

Martial Law declared in repsonse to continue political violence and assassination attempts

Japan 1937

Ruling Cabinet is made up of military officials

Japan 1937 China

Rest of China invaded

Japan 1938

New Order in East Asia established
Eventually renamed Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere

Italy 1918

D’Annunzio publishes a poem declaring WW1 asa mutilated victory
Becomes clear Italy will not receive territory promised in the 1915 pact of London

Italy 1920

Postwar inflation sees the lira drop to 1/3 of its 1913 value

Italy 1922

March on Rome sees Mussolini appointed as PM (Didn’t have much support)

Italy 1923

Acerbo Law

Italy 1924

Matteotti Affair
Outspoken critic of Mussolini murdered by Blackshirts

Italy 1925 Provincial Officials

Replaced by Podesta (Centrally appointed fascist governors

Italy 1925 Censorship

Formal censorship of all press

Italy 1925 Battle

Battle for grain starts

Italy 1925 workers

Dopolavoro established to provide leisure and rec for workers

Italy 1926 opposition

Other parties made illegal

Trade unions and strikes illegal

Italy 1926 Battle

Battle for land sees the Pontine Marshes drained

Italy 1927 

OVRA (Secret Police) created and given wide ranging powers

Italy 1929

Lateran treaty creates an independent Vatican in exchange for papal support for Mussolini