1. 7.5- Effects of the Second War on the Pacific

2. Democratization Japan was defeated by The US and hence fell to the US
The US wanted to turn Japan into a liberal democracy with free-market economics

3. Terms of Occupation Punishing war criminals
Disbanding military and disarmament
Banning military officers holding office
Disbanding zaibatsu (large corporations)
Emperor to renounce authority and take up a figurehead position
Land reforms
broke up large holdings in favor of small hold tenants

4. US Occupation of Japan US aided Japan
Not until the Korean War that US bolstered the economy in Japan due to to spending
1952, US formally ends occupation in Japan
Japan remained demilitarized, and a parliamentary democracy with a flourishing Market economy

5. Cold War
Rehabilitation and political direction of Japan depended on the US imperial holdings
Japanese holdings were determined by the other allies
I.e. China received taiwan
The USSR controlled the North half of Korea
Britain controlled Hong Kong
USSR pledged to go to war with Japan at Yalta

6. Cold War cont’d Invasion of Mongolia
After the bombing of Hiroshima, and the events are related
Decision to drop the bomb was related to the idea that the US refused to to accept Soviet help in the pacific theatre
Seen as the US keeping the Soviets out of Japan
Lead to the reason for why US dropped the second bomb
With the bomb, The US was able o keep the allies out
Britain and China unable to occupy Japan due to economic hardships
The US invasion of Japan provided an important base for for US and UN operations during the Korean War.

7. Imperialization and Decolonization
Britain
WWII reduced UK and France to second rate power .
Yet both regained global empires
: illustrated difficulty in defending geographically scattered holdings
Began contemplating independence of colonial holdings, such as India.
Responsible for western asia during the war
Mountbatten negotiated the independence of British India
Hong Kong reverted to the British, yet the Philippines became independent in 1946

8. Imperialization France
France surrendered due to nuclear explosions and active japanese units in the field
Result: hap hazard demobilization of the Japanese army
Some surrendered to the Soviets in Manchuria after a fight
Soviets lost 8,000, and Japan 40,000
Weapons from the fight left for China’s nationalist forces
Chinese civil war would begin again after WWII
Ho Chi minh seized portions of Indo- china and resumed imperial activities
9 years of war between the Viet Minh

9. Timeline 1943 1944 1945 Battle of Jima (19 February-26 March)
Japanese forces begin withdrawal from Guadalcanal (1 February)
Japanese commander Admiral Yamamoto is killed (18 April)
US invades Bougainville (1 November)
Battle of Tarawa (20-23 November)
1943
Allied air forces begin aerial bombing campaign (June)
Battle of Saipan (15 June-9 July)
US invades Guam (19 July)
US invades Tinian (24 July)
US forces land in Philippines (20 October)
1944
Battle of Jima (19 February-26 March)
Allies fire bomb Tokyo (9 March)
Battle of Okinawa (1 April-22 June)
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (6 August)
USSR declares war on Japan (8 August)
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (9 August)
Japan surrenders to allied forces (2 September)
1945