Japan - Move to Global War

1853

Commodore Perry arrives in Japan

1854

Treaty of Kanagawa, Opened two ports in Japan to US ships

1867

Emperor’s power restored

1871

Treaty of Teinstin, Sino-Japanese trade relations

1894

First Sino-Japanese war

1895

Treaty of Shimonoseki, Ended first Sino-Japanese war

1902

Anglo-Japanese alliance

1904-1905

Russo-Japanese war

1905

Treaty of Portsmouth, Ended Russo-Japanese war, Japan controls Korea and South Manchuria

1910

Japan annexes Korea

1914

Japan seizes German possessions in Shangdong

1915

21 Demands, List of demands secretly sent to China, aimed to expand Japanese control in Korea

1918

Siberian Expedition, Invasion of Russian territory by Japanese troops

1919

Treaty of Versailles, Japan failed to get racial equality clause implemented

1921

Washington Conference, 5:5:3 conference, limited naval sizes in 100k tonnes

1925

Peace Preservation Law, Oppression of those seen as enemies to the state, focused on communists

1931

Manchuria Crisis/Mukden Incident, False flag event where Japanese troops bombed the Japanese South Manchuria Railway, blamed on the Chinese

1934

Manchukuo, Puppet state established by Japan in Manchuria

1936

Anti-Cominterm Pact, Anti-communist pact between Nazi Germany and Japan

Rival Japanese military factions

Kodoha vs Toseiha, Kodoha extreme

1937

Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Small clash between Chinese and Japanese forces, escalated into second Sino-Japanese war

Second Sino-Japanese war

1941

US oil embargo

Japanese–Soviet Non-aggression Pact

1940

Tripartite Pact, Japan, Germany, and Italy

Dec 7th, 1941

Pearl Harbor attack

July 1914

Japan invades Indo-China

Dec 1937

Rape of Nanking