japanese expansion timeline quiz

July 1853

commodore perry sails into Nagasaki harbor to open trade negotiations with the Japanese emperor

Jan 1868

restoration of Meiji rule is declared

august 1894

first sino-japanese war breaks out over influence in korea

april 17 1895

treaty of Shimonoseki signed, end of sino-japanese war; marks shift from Chinese to Japanese regional dominance

april 23 1895

triple intervention of Russia, Germany, France forces Japan to give up control of Liaodong Peninsula

Jan 1902

anglo-japanese alliance signed

feb 1904

russo-japanese war breaks out

1905

treaty of portsmouth signed, marks end of russo-japanese war

1915

japanese presents 21 demands to China

Jan 1919

Paris peace conference takes place

feb 1919

japan proposed inclusion of racial equality clause, problem was shelved

may 1919

may fourth movement breaks out in China in protest against Japanese demands at paris peace conference

feb 6 1922

five-power naval treaty

feb 22 1922

nine-power treaty replaces the Lansing agreement

1926

northern expedition

1930

smoot hawley tariff act raises tariffs on US imports more than 200%

1931

manchurian incident

jan 7 1932

stimson doctrine signed

jan 26 1932

shanghai incident

1933

tanggu truce signed

• japanese are the disease of the skin, communists are the disease of the heart

  • Jiang Jieshi

feb 1936

feburary 26 incident; ultra nationalists officers from the kodo-ha faction carry out attempted coup in Tokyo

nov 1936

japan signs anti-comintern pact with Germany

july 1937

Marco Polo Bridge Incident leads to Japanese invasion of china; second sino-japanese war

june 1940

france falls to germany after losing the battle of france

july 1940

us export control act halted shipment of airplanes, parts, machine tools, scrap metal, iron

sep 1940

Japanese diplomat Saburo Kurusu signs the Tripartite Pact (Pact of Steel) with Italy and Germany

march 1941

US Lend-lease act launched

april 1941

Admiral Isoruki begins planning Pearl Harbor

august 1941

US implements a total oil and gas embargo on Japan

december 7 1941

pearl harbor is attacked