2. Rome-Berlin Axis 1936 3. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis 1936 4. Annexation of Austria 1938 5. Hitler took the Sudetenland 1938 6. Took over Moravia and Bohemia 1939 7. Invaded Poland- WAR Sept. 1939
APPEASEMENT Japans Path to War 1931-1940 Background Information Led by an emperor Government modeled on Germany Westernization Industrialization Transformed military on European model Defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (1905) Imperial power in the East Japan in the 1930s Great Depression devastated Japan (trade) Military leaders seize power Censorship Arrested critics Secret police No influence from the west
Japan is Poor Crowded Lacking in natural resources Militaristic Led by Emperor Hirohito r.1926- 1989 Military: Hideki Tojo Prime Minister 1941-1944 Japan wants to rid Asia of the A B C D Countries America Britain China Dutch Japans Goal= Create an empire in Asia 31 Japan Attacks Manchuria When the League of Nations protests, Japan withdraws from the League.
36 Japan Attacks China Leader of Nationalist China Chiang Kai-Sheks Nationalists join forces with Communists to fight Japan The Japanese commit severe war atrocities on the Chinese population, especially in the capital, Nanking. The Rape of Nanking Japanese soldiers use Chinese as bayonet practice
Decapitation contests are held Chinese burned alive Over 20,000 Chinese women raped, then mutilated Bayonet Practice Sword Practice Over 20,000 women raped Their bodies were mutilated Some were buried alive Fathers forced to rape daughters 1940- Japan invades Indo-China Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
July 1940 -As a reaction the US embargos (restricts trade) on oil and scrap metal to Japan. Japan decides what to do next
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