1. Agenda Monday, March 23rd Do-Now Homework Do now
Please take a few moments to use each of the following terms in a sentence which demonstrates its meaning:
Manchurian Incident
Puppet State
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Notes on japan builds an empire
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Chapter 23 packet due

2. 24.3 - Japan Builds an empire
The Road to World War II
Japan Builds an empire

3. Growing Military Power
WWI
Japan joins the allies
Minor role in WWI
Conquered German Pacific posessions
Improved economy

4. After WWI Japan uses 2-party parliamentary government
Greatly increases # of Japanese who can vote
Steps toward international peace
Slowed territorial expansion
Helped found the League of Nations
Signed the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact to condemn war, promote diplomacy

5. Democracy in Crisis Recessions rocked Japanese economy in 1920’s
Conditions grew worse in 1930 with the G.D.
Japan’s economy was reliant on international trade
High tariffs elsewhere severely damaged J. econ.

6. Democracy in Crisis (continued)
Industrial decline  strikes, layoffs, political discontent
Many Japanese blamed the democratic system of government
Believed gov’t reacted too slowly, did too little
Also evidence of corruption in Japanese gov’t

7. Rise of Nationalism Japanese Military V. Government
Dissatisfied with limits on the Japanese Navy & Army
Angry at prevention of Japanese challenge at Manchuria
Radical Nationalist groups rise in rebellion
Perceive gov’t weaknesses
Demand a return to tradition, end to multi-party system
Demand an end to Western ways & powerful business in Japan
Radicals assassinate business and political leaders

8. Japanese troops entering Manchuria in the wake of the so-called Mukden Incident during the Sino-Japanese War. After a bomb of unknown origin damaged the Japanese railway near Shenyang (Mukden), the Japanese Kwantung army guarding the railway used the incident as a pretext to occupy south Manchuria and eventually to set up a puppet government.

9. The Manchurian Incident
1900’s population Explosion in Japan
1930 neared 65million
Growing by ~1million per year
Japan lacked resources to support its population
Land/space for growth and agriculture
Markets and raw materials to power the economy

10. The Manchurian Incident
Manchuria appears a solution
Iron ore and coal stores
Vast undeveloped land
Japanese Army stationed there
Army takes action without gov’t approval
Capture cities in Southern Manchuria
Chinese Army retreats by sea
Japanese civilian gov’t shocked and powerless to stop its army

11. Puppet State of Manchukuo
Manchuria is declared the independent state of Manchukuo
Installs a new leader with Japanese advisors
Japan sends over 1 million farmers, businessmen, soldiers in hopes of securing the new colony
International reaction
GB & U.S. protest violation of Kellogg-Briand Pact
do not act, empty threats
League of Nations orders Japan to end its occupation
Japan withdraws from the league

12. An end to Japan’s Multi-party Government
1932 naval officers assassinate the prime minister
1936 more high gov’t officials killed
Parliamentary system in danger
Civilian governors fear for their lives
Military gains influence, unchecked in power

13. War against China 1937 scuffle in Beijing turns into full-scale war
Japanese fire power overtakes Chinese manpower
Japanese occupy Beijing and Tiajinin
Threaten northern China
Rape of Nanjing
Japanese soldiers brutalize or kill more than 100,000
mainly civilians, including women & children

15. Nationalist Soldiers marching during the second Sino-Japanese War

16. Roosevelt’s Response “The epidemic of lawlessness is spreading”
Condemns Japan’s actions
calls for a quarantine to protect peaceful nations
Congress passes a series of Neutrality Acts
Prevent US involvement abroad

17. International Response
Soviet Union also condemns Japan
Sends arms, military advisors, war planes to China
Britain sends supplies in to back China
Transported over Burma Road
China’s reaction
Former enemy leaders of China unite to fight Japan

18. Japan’s expansion plan
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Needed natural resources like oil and rubber to carry on war with China
Announced wish to claim all lands from Manchuria south along the coast to the Dutch East Indies
In expansion, Japan resembles Germany
Overtaking resources from surrounding lands to fuel Nationalism

19. Japanese– German– Italian Alliance
September 1940 Tripartite Pact
Japan moves troops to Northern French Indochina
With the reluctant permission of Vichy France

20. Japan as a World Threat Signs non-aggression pact with Soviets
Poised to overtake Dutch East Indies
Netherlands had fallen to Germany before

21. Writing
What does Japan’s rise to power indicate about how economic conditions affect foreign policy? Use examples.