Japanese Expansion Move To Global War

1853

US comandor Perry arrived at Japanese Tokyo Habor

1868

Meiji Restoration

Impacts of Meji Restoration

Reforms based on western models

development od constitution placing the emperor as the comandor in chief of the military

economic reforms pushing industralization

educational reforms

military reforms

1894-1904

First Sion-Japanese war

1904-1905

Russo-Japanese war

1914

Japan enters WWI

nine power treaty

aimed to keep China open for those nine powers

Four power treaty

US, Britain, France and Japan promised mutual support if Asian holdings were threatened

Naval Treaty/Five power treaty

British Empire, US, Italy, France and Japan agreed on having limited amount of navy

1921

Washington Conference

Washington Conference

Nine power treaty

Four power treaty

Naval / Five power treaty

GMD

Guamindang Party - Jiang Jieshie

CCP

Communist Party of China - Mao Zedong

1926

Northen expedition

1928

Assasination of Zhang Zuolin

1929

Great Depression

Great deppresion impacts on Japan

Smooth Hawley Act

Exports crushed

Massive unempoyment

18 september 1931

Explosion of japanese railways in Manchuria

1932

Manchuria was under complete control of Japan

1933

Tanggu treaty

1932-1945

Muchukuo as the puppet state

Results of Manchurian Crisis

Worsen relations between Japan and western powers

Japan convicted by Leauge of Nations

GMD focused on deafiting CCP

Japan benefited economicly

Japanese military was pulling the strings

Imperial way

pushed for military dictatorship and saw USSR as Japan’s biggest opponent

control faction

pushed for more military influence in the goverment and conquest of China

1936

March into tokyo

July 7 1937

Marco Polo Bridge Incident

October 1941

General Tojo became Prime Minister

September 1940

Tripartite Axis Pact

April 1941

Neutrality Pact

December 7 1941

Pearl Harbor

December 8 1941

US declared war on Japan

The Lytton comission

Fact finding mission

March 1933

Japan withdrew from the League of Nations

Stimson Doctrine

Non-recognition of any agreement

12 December 1937

The Panay Incident

January 1939

Moral Embargo

July 1941

Freezing of Japan’s assets and expanded oli embargo